The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA) has
shut Quilox Club in the Victoria Island axis of the state for alleged noise
pollution.
The agency announced the closure of the club, owned by Shina
Peller, a member of the house of representatives, in a statement on Sunday.
LASEPA said the facility was shut over “its failure to
comply with directives on organising events and not obtaining a sound control
permit from the agency.”
The agency added that the move also followed several complaints made by residents in the area.
In the statement, Dolapo Fasawe, LASEPA’s general manager,
said the agency received several distress calls with video evidence from
concerned neighbours to support their claims on alleged environmental nuisances
being perpetrated by the club without consideration to the rights of other
residents to a peaceful environment.
“To avert a situation like this, we recently held a
stakeholders’ parley with the Owners/Chief Executive Officers of night clubs in
the State to address the issue of noise pollution, particularly during the
festive period,” the statement reads.
“Lagos had earlier increased the decibels to accommodate
leisure/hospitality business interests. We, however, urged them to apply for
sound control permits before hosting events to enable us to reach out to the
host community of the intended programme and further deploy our officials to
the venue for proper monitoring and prevention of excessive noise pollution.”
Fasawe said an invitation was extended to Quilox like every
other stakeholder “but it was ignored by the management for reasons best known
to them”.
“Entertainment and Lagos are like a conjoined twin, thus our
prolific intervention to preserve the sanctity of the State and at the same
time sustained its economic relevance through aggressive environmental
sustainability drive,” it added.
“To support the entrepreneurship interest of the operators.
We came up with a communique which serves as a bond guiding all parties on the
mode of operations during the yuletide period and the attendant consequences
for non-compliance to the agreement.”
This is not the first time the club would be shut down by
the state government for allegedly violating its laws.
In 2020, the state government also sealed the facility for
flouting COVID-19 guidelines.
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