Accra — The Greater Accra Regional Co-Ordinating Council has called on religious leaders and traditional authorities to restrain their followers from making derogatory and inflammatory statements against each other to ensure an uneventful ban on drumming.

This was contained in a press release after a meeting between the Council, the Permanent Conflict Resolution and Management Committee, Religious leaders and the Ga Traditional Council recently.

The release which was signed by the Public Relations Officer of the Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council, Mr. Gabriel Aryee, called on churches to comply with the stipulated noise decibels.

It also advised persons to refrain from taking the law into their own hands by entering church premises to enforce the laws on noisemaking since such acts are against the law.

"The positioning of loud speakers outside church premises should be discouraged. This applies equally to all sections of other communities within the Greater Accra Region," the statement said. The statement said all problems related to the ban should be reported to the Joint Task Force on Noise Control of the AMA or the police. The Task Force it said could be reached on 662441and 666859.

The statement said planning authorities should make a thorough check of where churches and mosques would be located before granting licences and permits.