As a way of curbing growing political intolerance, Ebonyi state government said it would embark on a three-day sensitization campaign against ongoing destruction of campaign posters and billboards of candidates ahead of forthcoming general election.
The state recently witnessed massive destruction of billboards and campaign posters of candidates in some local governments’ areas.
To this end, the government decided that after the three day sensitization, anybody found would be punished in line with the law.
Addressing journalists in Abakaliki, the state Commissioner for Internal Security and Boarder Peace, Dr.Kenneth Ugbala announced that government will liaise with security agencies in the state for the sensitization which he said will commence next week across the three senatorial zones of the state.
His words, “His Excellency the Governor has directed my office to liaise with the security agencies next week and have zonal sensitization and orientation to the youths on 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 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 destruction.
