Noise Produce by Religious Houses in Lagos, Nigeria

Within the Lagos metropolis it is common to see loudspeakers in public place hung conspicuously from church towers and mosque minarets. These are used in summoning adherents to worship and to relay religious services, which means that they are kept blaring for whatever number of hours the service takes. The volume is always of the highest, so you can imagine the noise they make.
Residents of Lagos are woken up by the blaring of these speakers, which go into operation around 5.00 a.m. every day in the case of mosques and go n intermittently throughout the day. Some people also dread the coming f Sundays, when Christians worship most of the day, with their loudspeakers competing with those Muslims. One is denied the relative peace needed after the hustle and bustle of struggling to earn a living. When these loudspeakers cease functioning, maybe through a power failure the quiet that arises gives one a sense of relief, as if a vital necessity of life had been restored. But religious houses have now found a way of circumventing power failures. They are procuring generating-sets to continue their noise-making
The sound pollution attributable to religious houses with the playing of records and cassettes, again at the highest volume. Practitioners of thee acts invariably argue that they are at liberty to practice their religion or trade in whatever way they can. This is not being questioned. But a man must not exercise his rights in such a way as to impair the rights of others. The government should move against these noise makers.