Lagos State Shuts Down 24 Churches, Mosques, Over Noise Pollution

For making too much noise and disturbing the peace of their communities, 24 religious outfits were shut down in 2014.
According to the Lagos State government on Wednesday, April 29, the religious houses were closed for contravening the State guidelines on noise pollution.

Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello and General Manager of the Lagos State Environment Protection, LASEPA, Mr. Ademola Shabi, disclosed this at the 2015 ministerial press briefing held in Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja.

Shabi 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.”