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LASG Reads Riot Act To Nightclubs, Bars Over Noise Pollution
…Vows To Intensify Raids On Erring Golf equipment, Prosecute House owners
Lagos State Authorities, on Sunday, learn the riot act to nighttime golf equipment, bars and lounges, particularly these within the Lekki axis, to desist from noise air pollution or threat being shut.
A press release signed by the Commissioner for the Setting and Water Assets, Mr. Tunji Bello, stated enforcement raids have been carried out on some nightclubs in Lekki following repeated complaints by residents of the world and environs.
He said {that a} go to by enforcement officers of the Lagos State Environmental Safety Company (LASEPA) to Prest Jazz Membership on Admiralty Manner, Lekki, following complaints of flagrant noise air pollution, revealed the usage of totally different big audio system and musical devices for stage performs and reveals, necessitating its closure.
The Commissioner famous that many residents of intellectual Lekki, particularly aged residents, have inundated his workplace with petitions and complaints concerning the hostile results of noise air pollution on their well being each night till the early hours of the following day.
Reiterating that the train might be a steady one, Bello suggested all golf equipment that interact in noise air pollution to retrace their steps earlier than it’s too late, sustaining that other than placing such golf equipment or bars beneath lock and key, the homeowners of the relief factors would even be prosecuted in response to the dictates of the legislation.
He said that nobody or organisation could be handled as a sacred cow within the newest marketing campaign, declaring that analysis has additionally proven noise air pollution as one of many causative elements for lowered lifespan.
Bello restated that the second pillar of the six-point Improvement Agenda of the current administration is Well being and Setting, which incorporates combating noise air pollution.
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