Thursday, March 28, 2024

Lusaka City Council cuts down 91 illegal bill boards in the Central Business District

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The Lusaka City Council (LCC) has cut down 91 illegal bill boards in the Central Business District (CBD) in the last one week in a bid to control the placement of billboards in the city.

LCC Public Relations Manager Brenda Katongola said the Council has also revised the billboard fees for 2019, depending on the location.

“The Council has so far removed 44 bill boards from Cairo Road during the course of the week. We expect to remove 150 billboards from the Central Business District (CBD),” She said

Ms. Katongola said advertising rates in some prime areas of the city will be higher while, those in peri-urban areas lower.

She stated that the Lusaka City Council is pulling down bill boards which were put up without permission from the local authority as a way of controlling Illegal placement of billboards that compromises public safety for both motorists and pedestrians.

“As a local authority we have an inventory of the agencies that are registered with the Council. We periodically carry out an exercise of removing billboards that are illegally placed in the city. This is in a bid to maintain the placement of billboards and basically to keep our city safe for motorists and members of the public.” Ms Katongola stated.

The council’s PRM has since appealed to advertising agencies to start labelling their billboards to make it easy for LCC to monitor the placement of adverts.

She said the exercise and process will make it easy to identify who owns the adverts and note which ones are illegal.

Ms. Katongola noted that the process is ongoing.

“We are going to be removing billboards from Great East Road, Addis Ababa and the peri-urban areas,” she said.

“We have noticed that there are a lot of illegal billboards which are mounted in the city and it is high time that people started paying for every billboard. It is our responsibility as a local authority to maintain the beauty of the city”, she added.

“We are appealing to everyone who is advertising on billboards to start complying with the regulations of the council. Those that are not registered should do so to avoid losing revenue. We are advising all advertising agencies and companies that deal in advertising to start paying for billboard advertising in the city.”

She explained that the council charges an annual subscription fee which all advertisers must pay for in order to advertise.

This is according to a statement made available to ZANIS by LCC Public Relations Manager, Brenda Katongola.

12 COMMENTS

    • @The Real Olivia Pope. You will not find clean, Sis. Miles cannot run the kilometers alone. Everybody who lives/visits Lusaka(or anywhere else in Zambia for that matter) needs to play their part.

  1. Ati find Lusaka what Olivier Pope? If you find Lusaka clean then i’ll sell to you the Sear’s Tower in Chicago for a rock bottom bargain price of $40 dollars.

    • That blogger is a PF blogger ..to them even a dug out pit latrine with two-ply soft toilet tissue is considered development!!

  2. We want our Zambia back. Keep moving and doing your job LCC. The next are littering motorists throwing rubbish through the windows and those urinating in the public places other than toilets. Fast track courts should be set up to send them to Chimbokaila and let them do cleaning up community service.

    • You are really gullible my friend…These dubious billboard contracts for LCC were publicized years ago in ZWD when sleeping (now asleep indefinitely) PF Mayor Wilson was in charge ..nothing was done now that there is a new man you think something will be done..really laughable …its merely changing hands new billboard contracts mean new contracts and brown envelopes for Miles Sampa

  3. ALSO DROP DOWN A POLITICAL CAMPAIGN POSTS UNLESS THEY ARE PAID FOR BUT NOT WHERE ONE SHOWS HIS OR HER FIGURE FOR DOING NOTHING. PLEASE THIS EXERCISE MUST BE EXTENDED TO CB TOO.

  4. ALSO DROP DOWN ALL POLITICAL CAMPAIGN POSTS UNLESS THEY ARE PAID FOR BUT NOT WHERE ONE SHOWS HIS OR HER FIGURE FOR DOING NOTHING. PLEASE THIS EXERCISE MUST BE EXTENDED TO CB TOO.

  5. PF government has mortgaged Zambia to Chinese who have began to operate withing GRZ.
    them due to public outcry, the PF regime has secretly engaged the Chinese nationals into the Zambia Police service again. These are stationed at Police headquarters in Lusaka

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  6. The city should make sure that the advertisers pay for removing the illegal bill boards. They should add a stiff penalty over and above the cost of removal. At a time when the city is short of funds they shoild be charging wrongdoers.

  7. Please trim up and do not cut anymore tree branches in Cairo Road. Lusaka is named the “garden city”. Make it look like it.

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