By Franklin ASARE-DONKOH
Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), John Kingsley Krugu says the authority together with partners have developed regulations to guide the control noise pollution in the country.
According to him, over the years it has been the typical Ghanaian attitude that noise pollution does not matter, but the EPA has taken the necessary steps to address that.
Speaking in an interview on the JoyNews’s current affairs program “AM show”, Mr. Krugu explained “This is the first time that the EPA, working together with other stakeholders, has put together regulations, protocol, and the standard that would guide the regulation of noise pollution in the country.
We are waiting for the bill because when you do new standards and regulations and at the same time you are making a new law, you then make references to the new law; you cannot make it to the old one because when you publish, then you have to do a new one all together.”
He stated that many of those works have been done, and they are in anticipation of the bill becoming law, and all would be published to guide the public on how to deal with issues of noise.
The EPA Executive Director noted that they currently receive complaints, and the EPA’s technical team conducts assessments and provides guidance to ensure there is no noise pollution.
“That kind of work has been done, and I think going forward we would be in a better position to regulate the pollution of noise,” he added.
