(1) Whether the Executive Mayor of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, Mr Danny Jordaan, (a) instructed or (b) gave cause for an instruction to be issued that a certain billboard (details furnished) be removed; if not, from whom did this instruction originate; if so, on what legal provisions did this instruction rely; (2) whether he has found that such an instruction by any councillor is not in contravention of section 11 of the Councillor Code of Conduct contained in schedule 1 of the Local Government: Municipal Structures Act, Act 117 of 2000 as amended; if so, how was this conclusion reached?
According to Nelson Mandela Bay Metro, the institution has not yet established who gave the instruction for the billboards to be removed and it is still investigating the matter.