KUCHING: Illegal posters are popping up like mushrooms after the rain in the city.
Folk aren’t happy by these and they are complaining to the Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (SUPP) public complaints bureau chief Wilfred Yap, who feels this form of illegal advertisement must stop.
Yap, who is also a councillor of Padawan Municipal Council (MPP), is particularly irked by the many posters put up by illegal money lenders and had brought the matter up in several meetings of MPP.
“The council’s enforcement team has regularly removed these posters from trees, sign boards and lamp posts during their patrols.
“Expired advertisement banners, fishtails and other illegal banners are also removed. But despite regular removal by the enforcement officers, the problem kind of gets worst,” he said in a press statement yesterday.
He said he would continue to raise the poster issue with the relevant authorities because they can be an eyesore and a distraction to drivers.
“Besides, the illegal posters are against the government’s effort to create a cleaner and greener living environment.”
Yap said those who put up these illegal posters and banners should pay for their removal costs.
“Those who keep doing it should be prosecuted as deterrence,” he added.
