A senior fellow for the New Ghana Social Justice Forum (NGSJF), Mr Abdallah Musah, has expressed deep concern at the rate at which political parties spend huge sum of money in mounting billboards, just to showcase their pictures and asking Ghanaians for votes, when that medium could be used to talk about pressing issues in the country.
Mr Musah said,
billboards are expensive, and can be used wisely to solve pressing issues that
we face in the country.
‘’I believe that
if billboards, for example; have pictures showcasing how Kayayei sleep on the
streets, lack of adequate drinking water, school kids under trees, poor waste
management and the unemployment issues in our country and how they intend
solving them when they are voted into power would rather go a long way to help
us’’.
‘’The plenty
political billboards that we see on our streets during elections can resettle
the many children begging on the streets to school’’, he stressed.
He said, doing that can help Ghanaians refer politicians to
those billboards when they come to power and fail to live by their promises.