Governor Charles Soludo bans loud speaker preaching in Anambra markets, threatens offenders with N500,000 fine.
If you want to preach, go to your church, were the words of Anambra Gov. Soludo as he banned preaching with loudspeakers in markets.
On the 8th of March 2025, a viral video showed Gov Soludo confronting an unidentified roadside preacher in a market, instructing him to cease his loud preaching.
Soludo made it clear that violators of the state’s noise pollution regulations would face a fine of N500,000.
In his words;
“If you want to preach the word of God, you go to your church. You are causing pollution. You cannot come to a marketplace and begin to disturb everybody here.
“If you want to preach the word of God, you go to church. The person who wants to come to your church will come to your church. But you don’t force everybody. In a marketplace, people have come to trade. It is not a church. So you don’t do that.
“They would have arrested you for disobeying the law. You don’t come out and take a space and start preaching. It is noisy. You are polluting the place. It is illegal. Everybody has freedom of worship. If you want to worship, we protect everybody, but you don’t go to the middle of the market where people are coming to trade and turn it into a church. Otherwise, we will charge you; they will be charging you for this space. You will pay N500,000 because we cannot allow this.”
See some reactions to the turn of event;
Dayo Akin: This is western international standard I agree with the governor but will our people not misinterpret this?
Chydon Chigozie: Let’s assume a northern Muslim governor gave this order, by now CAN and some tithes business pastors would claim the governor wants to islamize Nigeria
Anthony Okobi: Most of them are not even preaching, some the motive is to beg after the sermon for offerings, some is to insult and throw insults at passers by. One time I was in a market and this man saw a light skinned lady wearing a short gown buying things in the market, the next thing ” You dey do ashawo, because you yellow like pawpaw, men dem dey die for you, if you die now, you dey go hell fire” Repent.
Hadi Singz: Is not the preaching either in the church nor in the market, but doing according to the word of God we have be preaching and hearing.
Jenny Kide: I wish this will be replicated in Enugu. 5:am, this man had woken everybody on the street up with his loudest microphone in this terrible heat. Children were crying because they couldn’t sleep and the entire neighborhood was uncomfortable
Rich Hard: There start calling the governor a witch because they haven’t travel outside to see how coordinated peoples lives. Noise pollution in Nigeria is something else and these preachers will go to the market place with loud megaphone to collect offerings.
