The Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) is cleaning up the city of illegal advertisements — including those sticker types you see on signboards when you’re desperate to know what road you’re on — with 668,729 ads taken down since January.
Bernama reports that the massive operation also scraped 11,021 illegal advertisements in just one day at Wangsa Maju, Setiawangsa, Kepong, Batu, Titiwangsa, Bukit Bintang, Lembah Pantai, Seputeh, Cheras, Segambut and Bandar Tun Razak.
DBKL Enforcement Department director Mohd Sauffi Muhamad was quoted as saying that the taget was to get rid of 1.5 million of these advertisements by the end of the year.
“This is the first special operation after the establishment of a committee to eradicate illegal posters by Pemudah Special Task Force on City Hall in June. City Hall is also clearing up illegal advertisements daily,” he was quoted as saying.
DBKL is also working with the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) to cancel phone numbers displayed on these advertisements.
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