The AMA sanctions street preachers for making noise and operating without a permit.
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has issued notices to ten street preachers and five persons engaged in the sale of products using public address system in the Central Business District (CBD) for operating without a permit and making noise contrary to AMA Abatement of noise Bye-Law 2017.
Public Health Officers of the Assembly issued the notices on Friday, 15th July 2022 when they stormed the CBD to enforce the Abatement of Noise Bye-Law.
Speaking during the exercise, Head of Public Affairs at the AMA Mr. Gilbert Nii Ankrah said according to the Ghana Standards Protection Requirement for ambience noise control code GS 122: 2018, the permissible noise level within the commercial areas should be 75 decibels (dbs) during the day and 65dbs during the night.
He explained that public preachers were required to get a street preaching license from the AMA in accordance with Section 9 of the AMA Abatement of Noise Bye-Law, which requires them to carry out their operations between the hours of 8 am and 10 am while adhering to the acceptable noise level.
He explained that under the Abatement of Noise Bye-law, churches or religious institutions conducting service shall not allow music to be played or to preach at a service so loud as to cause disturbances to residents in the area
