FOLLOWING the massive destruction of billboards and campaign posters of candidates in some local governments across the state, Ebonyi state government yesterday announced that it will embark on three-day sensitisation against ongoing destruction of campaign posters and billboards of candidates for the forthcoming general election.
The government said after the three-day sensitisation, anybody found would be punished in line with the law.
The state prospect Commissioner for Internal Security and Border Peace, Dr Kenneth Ugbala, announced this to journalists in Abakaliki, stating that the government will liaise with security agencies in the state for the sensitisation which he said will commence next week across the three senatorial zones of the state.
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According to him, the three-day sensitisation will educate the youths and also inform them that anyone found going contrary to the rules and regulation of the state will be punished according to law.
He said “His Excellency, the Governor has directed my office to liaise with the security agencies next week and have a zonal sensitisation and orientation to the youths on the destruction of campaign billboards and posters.
“One fundamental thing is that destruction of billboards and posters is the cheapest way to distract people. The billboard or the posters has nothing to do with election. If you remove a poster of a man that God has ordained to win an election in the whole of Ebonyi state, that day, how he will win, you will not know. So, to me it is madness.
“It is a way of making some politicians who are not professionally inclined to lose focus on their campaigns. But in line with the directive of the Governor, we are going to liaise with all the political parties in Ebonyi state to stop these destructions.
“The first thing to do is to create awareness and put surveillance on them. Anybody that is being caught tearing posters or billboards of anybody irrespective of the political party will be punished in line with the law because that is the destruction and we cannot take it and the Governor has given a marching order on that and by the time we finish the three-day sensitisation on the youths in the three senatorial zones of the state, anybody who decides to continue the destruction must be punished in line with the law”, he said.
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