The Oyo State Government on Thursday sealed a new generation church located at Golden Estate, Oluyole, Ibadan, the state capital.
The measure was taken by the Oyo State Government against a branch of the Christ Life Church in the area.
This was after several unresolved steps taken to mediate among the complainants, residents and the church management.
According to the Commissioner for the Environment and Natural Resources, Architect Abdulmojeed Mogbonjubola, the State Government was left with no other option but to seal the church premises to avert preventable escalations of brewing tensions between the residents and the church on Sunday.
Some members of the community had locked the estate gate against members of Christ Life Church and prevented services from holding.
Mogbonjubola declared that the present administration would not fold its arms and allow escalations of any sort.
Officials of the Ministry on receipt of several complaints from next door residents to the church over the incessant noise through official letters and phone calls, visited the area on November 9, 2023.
The team recorded the sound level of the church activities at intervals, starting from praise worship, with the average reading of 74 DB (daytime), contravening the Extant Environmental Regulations of 2023, Section 58, Paragraph (b), which states that the noise limits for residential areas at daytime must not exceed 65DB.
Hence, it was ascertained that sound measurements from the church constituted noise pollution.
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Mogbonjubola emphasised that a resolution meeting was held with the parties in the Ministry’s conference room on November 29, 2023, where the church refused to sign an undertaking letter, with the excuse to get approval from its headquarters and report back on December 4, 2023.
The Ministry frowned at the consistent crisis, which consequently resulted in the sealing of the church.
The Commissioner warned against occurrence of noise pollution by churches, mosques, club houses, industries, companies and market places, as violators would be prosecuted.
He reiterated that Oyo State has fully become a rule of law state, where things must be done rightly.
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