#DAIKAGATE:Produce any permit or RECEIPT-JMDB call George Daika a Liar.

The Management of the Jos Metropolitan Development board has come out to clear the air on allegations of it taking down a billboard by PDP Gubernatorial apirant, George Daika. Mr Matthias N. Hata says due process was not followed and George Daika did not obtain permit before erecting the billboard. " I am surprised that people are making noise about due process of doing the needful, did Daika obtain the permit from the relevant authority? Somebody will just wake up and place adverts without any permit and cry wolf when we take it down, it is not the first billboard we are taking down.We have a franchise agreement with Nikavij the advert company that has that billboard, when my attention was called about the billboard I called the Director Mr Williams whether they were the ones that put the billboard they said they are not aware as it was strictly for commercials and not campaign, so we directed Nikavij to pull it down, Mr Williams in company of my Director town planning and some of my staffs went to the site to democratic the billboard and they were attacked by thugs" Mr Matthias reitereted "it is not a new thing we are doing,what we are doing is our routine job and it is not illegal, let Daika produce any permit or receipt for the billboard ". George Daika, has come out to accuse the LALONG administration for sending JMDB and some security men to pull down his billboard at the secretariat junction in Plateau State. In a telephone conversation with Munatarenews, Mr Daika said "I just recieved a call from one of the Lalong boys that the Permanent Secretary security Mr Cornelius has paid them and instructed them to go and pull down my billboard this night, They don't know that 40% of this LALONG boys are my boys and they report to me what is happening, even LALONG knows I am his senior in these politics game" Mr Daika is worried that LALONG is intolerant of democratic practices as a mere billboard that they have paid to the advertising company should not be taken down for whatever reason. The Permanent Secretary has come out to deny Daika's claim vehemently, claiming it as an attempt to malign his character. " I am a civil servant under the office of the SSG, what is my business with Billboards?, I think Daika wants to drag my name into politics but I am not a politician.