The Transfiguration and Solution Bible Church, which was accused of
noise pollution, has been shut down a few days after it was reported
that some residents on Sebanjo Street, in the Mushin area of Lagos, complained
of sleepless nights due to the church’s frequent vigils.
It was learnt that the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency shut
down the Pentecostal church on Friday.
Our correspondent had reported on January 13, 2014, that the residents
alleged that the Pastor of the church, Jide Balogun, disturbed them with
musical instruments and piercing electronic gadgets.
The residents had also petitioned LASEPA and the Ministry of Environment
to investigate the matter.
Balogun said he had complied with the
directive of LASEPA and had stopped using his electronic gadgets during the
vigils.
However, it was gathered on Friday that the environmental agency
locked up the church.
When the General Manager of LASEPA, Rasheed
Shabi was contacted on his official telephone line, he was not reachable.
The Public Relations Officer of the agency, however, said, “You already
know that the church has been closed down and we will not open it until they
comply and do the right thing.”
Meanwhile a member of the church, who pleaded anonymity, described the
crackdown on the church as selective justice.
He said, “It was wrong for them to have locked up the church because
even in your story, which I believe caused this, you pointed out that there
were four churches on the street, with a mosque that had a loudspeaker facing
the street.
“They are only picking on this church, because it is a small church. I
will personally invite you to my area where you have about five churches. But
most of these churches are the so-called celebrated churches.
”They only picked on Jide’s church because they know he used to be a
tailor. I am not in support of noise pollution because I once suffered from it
before I went to study abroad, but that does not mean we should use selective
justice. If we want to act, let us act.”
He said members of the church would be visiting LASEPA to have an
interaction with the GM on the matter.
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Why are you like dis huh? Is unfair wot's all dis anyway God dey.
ReplyDeleteLol, lagos is complaining of noise pollution .
ReplyDeleteA lot of pple are really suffering 4rm noise 4rm Churches in dis Country but I will advise that d Law should be 4 d Big and Small. Selective Justice is wrong and should be condermened by all.
ReplyDeleteSome churches are too noisy al d time 247,u can't even pray bcos of their noisy around ur house,some of dem u wil even imagin wat kind of christians are they,which jesus are they followin?their words nd prayers sound somehow,many of dem are not christians,infact I dint even trust dem much al dis 247 noisy churches,in 1 street u wil saw more dan 20 churches,where I was stayin b4 they had a noisy mosque nd wen we complain about it they reduce it nd we al stay happily wit d muslims.nd their own noisy is even not as lousy as d 247 churches,but they copprate,not like ours.pls we should reduce al dis noisy churches.haba!
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