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The Advertising Association of Ghana (AAG) is collaborating with the Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) to pull down billboards mounted in Accra without authorisation.
The exercise is to make lawfully placed advertising boards more visible and to ensure sanity along the streets.
The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr Henry Quartey, made this known last Wednesday when the association presented to him a 2018 audit report on billboards in Accra.
The report touched on the influx of unauthorised billboards scattered across streets in Accra, and considered to be endangering lives and creating clutter.
Accra situation
The Daily Graphic reported recently that streets in Accra were awash with billboards and other outdoor advertisements, endangering lives and creating clutter along the roads, including some ceremonial streets.
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Henry Quartey, Greater Accra Regional Minister
Henry Quartey, the Greater Accra Regional Minister has appealed to market queens to help move traders on the streets and pavements back into the markets to allow for free-flow of vehicular and human traffic in the city.
He said the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) would embark on a two-week public announcement to ask traders to vacate the unauthorized places, and that “when persuasion fails force must be applied.
“We are not saying you should not eat or should not trade, but operate in the market then you would not have problem with anyone,” he said and that people should avoid politicising the work of the assemblies.
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