Environmental Pollution:Lagos Govt. Close Down 24 Religious Buildings

         

Lagos State Government have closed down 24 religious buildings for making too much noise and disturbing the environmental peace of the community.


Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello disclosed this at the 2015 ministerial press briefing held in Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja on Wednesday April 29th.

The Commissioner said: “We received over 1, 000 petitions in the year under review. But we have been able to resolve some and some have relocated.”
“We have shut about 24 religious outfits in the last one year because they failed to adhere to the state guidelines on noise pollution.”
“The religious outfits contribute about 50 percent of the noise pollution in the state. In the last few years, we have been having problem to control noise from these outfits.
We have been able to shut them down while some have relocated from the community where they were.”