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The lawyers said that noise pollution infringed on the rights of others, aside its health hazards.
Mr Ahmed Goniri, the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Yobe, said it was important to protect citizens through strict application of existing laws.
``Naturally some people cannot sleep with noise around them, that means when you are making noise you are infringing into their rights of peaceful existence and enjoyment of their rights.
``It goes to show that you are tripling into someone’s right and this can be adequately taken care of by enactment of laws’ ‘he said
He attributed the problem to the level of education of the people.
``We have so many problems actually in the society, we have a mix up of different people educated and non educated; to some, making noise is something to be proud of and to others unnecessary noise making without considering where you are is definitely detrimental,` ` Goniri said.
The commissioner commended the Lagos State Government for taking steps to curb the challenges of noise pollution in the state.
Mr Abeny Mohammed, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, lamented that the issue of noise pollution has not been taken seriously in the country.
``The issue of noise has been a very long and old issue in this country; we have never really taken seriously what noise pollution does to our environment and our health.
``The laws are always there to protect the environment, the only problem we have is the enforcement.
`` The law is proper to curb noise pollution because it is detrimental to both health and environment ,‘ Mohammed said.
Dr Oladele Fagbohun, a Psychiatrist at Karu General Hospital, disclosed that loud noise is hazardous to health.
`` In an environment where there should be no noise, where somebody is busy working, and wants to work quietly, resting and relaxing, or where he is in fact sleeping, any form of noise that is disturbing at that time, constitutes pollution to that person,'' Fagbohun said
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