Has BCP really won GCC poster war?

Last week’s out of court settlement, with the council agreeing to pay BCP P13 000, is a refund for costs incurred in the urgent application in which GCC lost. The deal is that the BCP has to remove the posters at traffic lights and withdraw their counter-sue against the council.

This week’s decision arose from a four months battle, which started when the GCC officials took a dramatic decision to ban political posters last May. The BCP had always maintained that they council based its action on the poor understanding Road Traffic Act Cap 69.  It all started on May 31, when the GCC ordered political parties to remove their campaign posters from streetlights in the city, giving the BCP, on the eve of their manifesto launch, sleepless nights.