No less than 24 houses of worship were closed down in 2014 for conflicting with state rules on clamor contamination, Lagos State government has said.
Reports say the state government further said the new Material Recovery Facility, would be secured to catch the enormous waste created every day and support the Waste-to-riches program in the state.
As per the Commissioner for Environment,Tunji Bello and General Manager of the Lagos State Environment Protection, LASEPA, Ademola Shabi, a specialist, uncovered this at the 2015 ecclesiastical press preparation held in Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja.
Shabi reeling out the exercises of his office in the year under survey included that 13 commercial enterprises were closed for disregarding the ecological rules set by the administration.
Vanguard reports that he mourned that the contamination created day by day in the state was expanding and the administration must set out on measures to diminish it, including; "We got more than 1, 000 petitions in the year under survey. Yet, we have possessed the capacity to determine some and some have migrated."
As per him, "We have closed around 24 religious outfits in the most recent one year on the grounds that they neglected to hold fast to the state rules on clamor contamination."
The general administrator clarified that these religious outfits contribute "the religious outfits contribute around 50 percent of the commotion contamination in the state. In the most recent couple of years, we have been having issue to control clamor from these outfits. We have possessed the capacity to close them down while some have migrated from the group where they were.
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