Owners of advertising billboards are claiming that the planning authority is turning a blind eye to structures owned by a company which supplied illegal billboards to the Labour Party in the past.
“While all my billboards have been removed by Mepa, almost all the illegal billboards of the company which supplied free advertising space to the Labour Party before the last elections are still in place,” one operator complained.
The Sunday Times of Malta took pictures of a number of illegal billboards around the island owned by Aiken Services Limited, which supplied some 60 illegal billboards to the Labour Party before the elections.
Asked why the billboards of Aiken Services Ltd were not removed like the others, a Mepa spokesman said “the authority is following a programme of works to remove the remaining illegal billboards over the coming weeks”.
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