How Oyo residents show indifference to govt orders

About four weeks ago, the Oyo State Government gave a two weeks ultimatum to churches, mosques and other organisations or establishments with external loud speakers to remove them or face prosecution. Vanguard, however, observed that most worship centres in the metropolitan city are yet to comply with the government’s directive.

In some parts of Ibadanland like Mokola, Agbaje, Ijokodo, Sabo, Eleyele, Owalla, Abebi, Oniyanrin, Ring road and several other places, religious centres have been flouting the directive with impunity.

Apart from some churches that were sealed up for breach of the environmental laws, and about 372 people already prosecuted over environmental related offences, the government seems to have relaxed concerning the directive. While giving the directive some weeks ago, the Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Mr. Isaac Ishola, who was flanked on the high table by the Commissioner for Information, Mr. Toye Arulogun and many other principal officers of ministry, emphasized that no fewer than three churches have been closed down in Ibadan alone in the last two weeks as a result of noise pollution.
Vanguard, September 22, 2017

 

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