Why post posters indiscriminately?
Every institution, church, company and many entertainment areas want to be known nationwide. The easiest way of advertisement is posters and handbills.
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Posters are mostly made in a way that benefits only the company and affects the nation.
Instead of people advertising on billboards or using other means of advertisement, they rather use electricity poles, communication poles, walls of buildings and many other means for their advertisement.
The electricity and communication poles located on the streets are to provide light and good communication network for the community.
What most people do not know is that each pole has been numbered for easy location when there is damage.
When things are posted on them, they do not check out for these numbers. Only their advertisements matter to them.
For easy identification, the pole’s number will be needed, and there comes a poster on it.
This makes the work of the Electricity Company difficult.
Currently, churches post their posters on any available space they find. For instance, the walls of the national hockey pitch, Mallam overpass, the Kwame Nkrumah interchange and even the uncompleted overpass at Kasoa are all white washed with posters of movies, churches, politicians, night clubs, spiritualists and many others.
After serving the purpose of its owners, they are removed and its removal wears off the paintings made on the walls for beautification. On no account will these companies post their posters on their walls or working environment.
Besides, this behaviour also adds to the filth around. When they wear off, instead of it being in the dust bin or the refuse dump, they rather lie on the street. This increases to form garbage on the street; most of them end up in the drains and choke the gutters.
These choked gutters promote the breeding of mosquitoes and spread malaria. It also leads to flooding when it rains heavily.
A company’s benefit leads to the destruction of the nation; the abundance of mosquitoes increases the spread of malaria, leading to loss of lives.
The properties and lives of people are lost when flooding takes place, and this causes the government to lose financially because it has to provide drugs for the sick and provide citizens who lose their properties with new ones.
This same money could have been used for other economic purposes.
Let’s post our advertisements on billboards to prevent all these losses.
I urge the law making body to enact laws on posters and they must be enforced by the police and the Accra Metropolitan Assembly.