Shuts down two churches and two mosques for making noise
The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA) has shut down four religious centres in the state for noise pollution.
LASEPA officials, backed up by the Lagos State Task force on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit, stormed the affected churches and mosques on Monday and shut them down for refusing to comply with the environmental laws of the state.
The affected churches are The Christ Chosen Church, Onipanu, and The Evangelical Apostolic Church; while the affected mosques are Darusalam Mosque at Sabo, Yaba, and Ayegbesin Mosque at Mafoluku, Oshodi.
Rasheed Shabi, the General Manager, LASEPA, said the affected places of worship were shut down over noise pollution as people in their vicinity had complained about the unabating noise.
He said they were served abatement notices for them to remove the loud speakers outside their churches in order not to disturb the public.
According to him, the affected worship centres failed to comply with the abatement notices; which left the government with the last option of shutting them down.
He said they would not be opened until they comply with the environmental laws of the state as regards noise pollution.
