Lagos—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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