LASEPA officials, backed up by the Lagos State Task force on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit, stormed the affected churches and mosques 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.
BRIBERY: 3 LASTMA Officials Sent To Kirikiri
The Magistrate’s Court 1 sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, has sent three officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, and two others to Kirikiri Prison for allegedly taking bribe from motorists.
The LASTMA officials are Anjorin Sakiru, 43 years, a Principal Traffic Officer I, Mr. Shafari Fakumogun, 50, and a female, Omisakin Temitope, 33 years while two other suspected accomplices were also sent to Kirikiri with them.
The accused pleaded not guilty and were granted bail in the sum of N200,000 each, with two sureties in like sum, but they could not meet the bail conditions and were remanded at Kirikiri. The matter was adjourned till 19 June, 2012.
The three LASTMA officials were arrested by the LASTMA Monitoring Team at Tollgate for allegedly extorting money from motorists, while the other two accomplices in mufti helped the LASTMA officers to extort money from motorists.
Luck ran out on them when the LASTMA officials stopped Mr. Kelvin Ogbonnaya, who was driving a Space bus and ordered him to part with some money.
Ogbonanya said seven other vehicles stopped by the LASTMA officials had their drivers begging for mercy from the LASTMA officers, while he alerted the LASTMA Monitoring team which came to the scene and promptly arrested the culprits.
Investigations revealed that the other two men arrested posed as LASTMA officials and helped the real LASTMA officials to collect bribe from motorists.
The culprits were brought to the Office of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit, Alausa, Ikeja and were detained on Friday before they were later arraigned in court.
Taskforce Chairman, Bayo Sulaiman, said the law must take its course, saying the culprits must be punished according to the laws of the state.
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