KINABATANGAN, Jan. 22 -- Campaign billboards featuring late Datuk Bung Moktar Radin with Barisan Nasional Kinabatangan by-election candidates Mohd Naim Kurniawan Moktar and Mohd Ismail Ayob are not going down well with some residents here.

The billboards have begun appearing along roadsides and near roundabouts across the constituency.

While some see the visuals as an attempt to project continuity, others say the presentation was improper.

"The way they edited the picture is so scary," said one who declined to be named, describing the billboard as "eerie" rather than comforting.

Another who wanted to be known as Amir said the billboard crossed the line and was disrespectful to the dead.

"It is wrong to use the image of someone who ha...