Penang BN chairman Teng Chang Yeow said the party would abide by the notices received from the council and pay the fines expected from the Seberang Perai Municipal Council (MPSP) as well.
“Like I said before, we are a law-abiding party. We know what we were doing. We have donors who have helped us raise money to pay the fines. These donors are expecting us to pay the fines.
“We are not a Milo tin party, where we collect donations and don’t use them,” he said.
Penang BN recently took responsibility for the spate of posters deriding Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and his administration which were put up across the state.
The posters, mostly in Chinese, read: “51 empty promises, after 10 years” and included a Chinese euphemism, “big cannon”, which means a big liar or a big boaster.
The A5-sized posters show a picture of Lim pointing at cars and wading through flash floods against a background of an apartment on a bald hillside.
MBPP subsequently issued a notice to Penang BN, saying it had to pay a total of RM13,448 for putting up posters in public areas without permission.
This followed the issuance of 27 compound notices which cost RM250 each, totalling RM6,750, and another RM6,750 for “logistical and cleaning works”.
FMT has learned that MPSP, the local authority for Seberang Perai, will announce tomorrow the total fine imposed on BN for flouting its laws by putting up the posters.
Anti-Guan Eng posters appear in Penang as GE14 fever hots up