From Lagos State, CEOAFRICA.com gathered that the state Military of Environment have sealed off headquarter of a famous Pentecostal church for gross environmental abuse.

The Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Revival Movement, along the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway was sealed off in order to prevent an outbreak of epidemic.

A statement released from the Ministry of Environment in the state stated that the lives of worshippers are considered in taken the decision.

“An inspection of the church’s environment revealed that solid waste generated was not properly disposed of.

“It was openly burning waste on the church premises, exposing the lives of its worshipers to health hazards.”

Also, some part of the church building, according to the ministry, was built on the Odo Asimawu drainage channel, which disturbs the free flow of flood waters.

 “All the church toilets were built on the canal, thereby enabling the deliberate discharge of raw human wastes into it,” the statement added

Our source disclosed that the state Commissioner for the Environment has ordered that the church should remain under seal until necessary environmental adjustments are done.

“There must be complete sanitisation of the entire church environment; a proper facility for the disposal of solid waste must be put in place; new toilet facilities built and proper evacuation of the human and solid wastes dumped into the canal ensured ,” the statement said.