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.
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