Remove Your Billboards Around and Inside The Roundabouts or Find them Removed – Gbilekaa Warns Billboards Owners
The General Manager cum Chief Executive Officer of Benue State Urban Development Board, Apostle (Dr) Saint Gbilekaa Abrahams has given additional seven days ultimatum to those who have mounted bill boards inside and around roundabouts in all the 23 Urban centres in the State, particularly in Makurdi metropolis to remove those billboards or find them removed at the expiration of the new notice.
The General Manager who said the presence of such Billboards were blocking the road view and as well, damaging the aesthetics of the towns similarly added that, the billboards were also
breaching the traffick security of such areas.
Gbilekaa who decried a situation where owners of billboards have taken the laws into their hands by mounting billboards at locations of their choice without seeking approvals from the Board further declared that the Benue State government because of the evasion of taxes on billboards was losing hundreds of millions.
The Benue State Urban Development Boss further added that those who have legimately paid for their bill boards will be shown new locations, where such bill boards will be mounted.
Gbilekaa also enjoined Owners of Signages or billboards in the state to always seek for legal approval from the Board before mounting them in avoidance of any embarrassment, just as he also warned those who have placed their Signages on road dividers and walkways to remove them.
He stated that those willing to mount business or campaign billboards in the state should as a matter of law, come forward to the Board and formally register their Signages at the Account section of the Benue State Urban Development Board, via the Desk officer of the Board of Internal Revenue Service ( BIRS).
He added that rates for such advertorials will be made available to prospective advertisers at the Board office located at No. 26, Kashim Ibrahim Road, Makurdi.
The General Manager also advised aspirants of all the political parties to desist forthwith; the idea of pasting campaign posters on roundabouts and other government infrastructure, maintaining that such posters aside from defacing the towns were also unlawful strategy of electioneering campaign.
In a related development, the General Manager also warned those mounting canopies, kiosks and containers on strategic locations to as a matter of urgency remove them within 7 days or find them levelled down.
Gbilekaa specifically called on owners of makeshift structures on George Akume way, Gboko road, Joe Akahan way, Kashim Ibrahim way, Atiku Abubakar Road, Iyorchia Ayu road, Old and New Oturkpo roads, Ishaya Bakut road amongst others to as well, remove same with immediate effect.
This announcement takes effect from 4th – 10th, January 2022.
