The Osun State House of Assembly, OSHA, has directed the House Committee on Environment and Sanitation to write a letter to all telecommunication service providers in the state to appear before the Assembly, to furnish it with permits and approvals for citing their masts in the state.
The Speaker, Mr. Timothy Owoeye gave the directive, during plenary, after the Chairman House Committee on Environment and Sanitation Mr. Benjamin Ogundipe, submitted the fact-finding report of its visit to Obalende Area of Ipetu-Ijesha, Oriade Local Government Area of Osun State.
Mr. Owoeye in his directive ordered that a letter be written to the state Ministry of Environment and Sanitation, for it to provide the Assembly with the list of telecommunication service providers in the state.
He said the telecommunication operators should equally come with the land approvals or deeds for the location where their masts were cited.
The Speaker who frowned at the citing of telecommunication masts in residential areas because of its harmful effect on the people, said the Assembly would do the needful, with regards to compensate affected residents or the total removal of telecom masts from residential areas.
The Chairman of the House Committee on Environment and Sanitation, Mr. Benjamin Ogundipe, had reported back to the House that the telecom mast in the area visited was giving residents of the area sleepless nights, and that its power generator was causing noise and air pollution that had forced landlords to vacate their homes to go rent houses in safer locations.
It would be recalled that the lawmaker representing Oriade State Constituency had raised the issue of noise and air pollution from a telecommunication masts erected in Obalende area under Matter of Urgent Public Importance.
Funmi Adekoya
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