Anambra State's governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has stated that if politicians fail to pay taxes on their billboards, the state government will remove them.
The governor claimed he knew where to find money from around the world before last year's election. He has imposed many taxes on the people of Anambra since taking office as governor.
In a recent press release, Tony Ujubuonu, the managing director of the Anambra State Signage Agency (ANSAA), gave all politicians and political parties with billboards two weeks to pay their fees.
Ujubuonu said, “We have given two weeks’ notice to all political parties and their candidates to ensure they have paid for all their campaign billboards or meet the agency’s wrath.
“Anambra State Signage and Advertisement Agency, through a letter dated November 14, 2022, urged all Out-Of-Home Advertising Practitioners in the State to revalidate and register all their billboards in the State.”
He also said that the agency had told all billboard owners to give the information needed to register each billboard and pay for any campaign.
“It has also gotten to the knowledge of the agency that some political party candidates are erecting billboards on their own ignorantly.
“The agency wants to state that this is not only wrong but illegal, and it would bring down any such billboard without any notice, the structure seized permanently and auctioned.”
The agency gave the grace period to last from November 14 to December 5. It said that all billboards had to be registered and paid for in full, or they would be taken down after the deadline.