
The Headquarters of
popular Lagos church The Lord's Chosen and Charismatic Revival Church, founded by
Pastor Lazarus Muoka, has been sealed off by the Lagos State Government for
allegedly defacing and constituting environmental nuisance to its environment.
The church, located at Ijesha on Oshodi-Apapa Expressway in Lagos, was shut down on Sunday Oct. 6th by officials of the Ministry of the Environment and prevented thousands of worshipers from having their Sunday service that morning.
The Commissioner for the Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello, explained why the Church was shut down
The church, located at Ijesha on Oshodi-Apapa Expressway in Lagos, was shut down on Sunday Oct. 6th by officials of the Ministry of the Environment and prevented thousands of worshipers from having their Sunday service that morning.
The Commissioner for the Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello, explained why the Church was shut down
“The Church does not have proper sanitary system
and they discharge their wastes into the canal. Most of their members trade on
the expressway and we don’t want that"he said.
The commissioner also said
the church had a habit of burning its refuse inside the church, an action that
is against the environmental and sanitation law of the state. He said the
church will be re-opened only after it builds new toilets, build a sewage septic
tank for the treatment of waste water, remove all illegal attachments built on
drainage channels, keep the environment clean and ensure that none of its
members trade on the expressway.
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