GCC denies targeting BCP in billboard onslaught

Matlho said the council has to approve any poster before it is put up or else it is viewed as illegal. He stated that they have written to Mogoditshane MP Patrick Masimolole of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) to remove his posters from the streets of Gaborone.

“We will be writing to Botsalo Ntuane and Robert Masitara (all from BDP) to remove their campaign posters after we saw them over the weekend. We are not targeting one party,” Matlho said, after it emerged that GCC and BCP are headed for another clash over billboard advertising. About a month ago, Justice Modiri Letsididi of the Lobatse High Court dismissed with costs an urgent application launched by GCC to compel the BCP to remove ‘illegal’ advertisement on street poles.