According to AMA, the placement of billboards and pasting of publicity materials at unlawful places is against the Assembly’s ‘premises maintenance by-law’ of 1995.

[contextly_sidebar id=”mI7mzwAMM0kqoV4xILZOJ2JCSiSiD8re”]The Public Relations Officer of the Assembly, Numo Blafo II told Citi News the assembly has noted with concern the development in the run-up to this year’s elections and will soon take action against it.

“When it get to this period we have the political parties putting up their paraphernalia, bill boards and posters indiscriminately and some even without permit from the assembly,” he said.

Numo Blafo II said the assembly will allow persons who have flouted the law by posting without permit to regularize it by securing teh required permit or it will remove the materials but if the parties fail to do so.

He added that the assembly will take it up and remove the materials however will surcharge the offenders.

“Those who have gone ahead can get it regularize or whatever they have to do to clean up or we will go ahead and clean up and then surcharge them for the activity. We are just telling them or either remove it or come to the assembly for the regularization,” he noted.

He added that, although the assembly has noted such illegal activities of political parties, it has taken interest in religious and other secular organizations that continue to flout their regulations on public advertisement.

He said, “It is not just the political parties, we are talking about the Churches and other individuals who have those kind of posters and banners unapproved in town.”

He said the assembly has issued an ultimate of up to October 31 to all offenders to remove their illegally hosted materials or be fined.

“We are giving them up to Monday. You can come [on] Monday to the assembly so that we can find a way of sanitizing the system,” Numo Blafo II said.

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By: Jonas Nyabor/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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According to Mr Vandepuije, who is seeking election as Member of Parliament for the Ablekuma South constituency, his actions  demonstrate skills that could make him relate easily with the constituents.

Photos that circulated on social media last week showed the NDC parliamentary candidate braiding the hair, and helping some electorates with the preparation of banku on one of his campaign activities in the area.

But in an interview with GHOne TV, the Accra MCE said “leadership is all about letting the people know that you have the skills. If you are going to an MP for a community, you must identify with the people. I, as Oko Vandepuije have skills. Braiding people’s hair is part of the hairdressing business, the salon business. So me demonstrating in public that I have that skills, I identify with the salon operators. That under Oko Vandepuije, we’ll bring support to the salons.”

“With me turning the banku, it is me showing them that I can cook. I am bringing a message of hope to our restaurants, to our women who cook banku along the roads and sell them. What I am telling them is that, with me, there is going to be advancement, we will create better restaurants, we will help them to set up. Me going to the sewing centres, I am demonstrating that I know how to sew. I am identifying with the tailors and seamstress and that I will work with them. We will bring economic empowerment,” he added.

As the campaign for election 2016 intensifies and parliamentary candidates are using different of methods to entice voters.

Earlier this month, the NDC parliamentary candidate of the Klottey Korle Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, Zanetor Rawlings embarked on her campaign ahead the December polls on a bicycle, an act many consider unusual of an aspiring public officer in Ghana.

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By: Jonas Nyabor/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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