The
Lagos State government yesterday said at least 24 religious outfits
were shut in year 2014 for contravening the State guidelines on noise
pollution.
The state government further said the new
Material Recovery Facility, would be established to capture the huge
waste generated daily and boost the Waste-to-wealth programme in the
state.
Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Tunji
Bello and General Manager of the Lagos State Environment Protection,
LASEPA, Mr Ademola Shabi, an engineer, disclosed this at the 2015
ministerial press briefing held in Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja.
Shabi
reeling out the activities of his agency in the year under review added
that 13 industries were shut for violating the environmental guidelines
set by the government.
He lamented that the pollution generated
daily in the state was increasing and the government must embark on
measures to reduce it, adding; “We received over 1, 000 petitions in the
year under review. But we have been able to resolve some and some have
relocated.”
According to him, “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 general manager explained
that these religious outfits contribute “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.
Credit: Monsuru Olowoopejo/Vanguard
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