The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, on Saturday, shut down a popular nightclub, Quilox, on Ozumba Nbadwe Street, Victoria Island, for organising an event without a sound control permit.
According to a statement on Sunday, the
enforcement exercise, which was jointly carried out by LASEPA and the Lagos
State Environmental and Special Offences Unit (task force), took place at about 4:30pm.
The General Manager, LASEPA, Dolapo Fasawe,
disclosed that the agency received several distress calls with video evidence
from concerned neighbours on the alleged environmental nuisance constituted by
the club.
She said, “To avert situations like this,
we recently held a stakeholders’ parley with the owners and chief executive
officers of night clubs in the state to address the issue of noise pollution
during the festive period. The state, in its magnanimity, compassionately
increased the decibels to accommodate leisure and hospitality business
interest.
“We urged them to apply for sound control
permits to enable us to reach out and notify 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 noted that an invitation was
extended to Quilox, like every other stakeholder, which was ignored by the
club.
Quilox is owned by the lawmaker
representing Iseyin/Itesiwaju/Kajola/Iwajowa Federal Constituency, Oyo State,
Shina Peller.
In December 2019, the club was similarly
sealed by LASEPA over noise pollution and traffic congestion.
The incident generated a controversy after
Peller was also arrested by the police over the incident.
The lawmaker did not take his call or
respond to a message on his WhatsApp on the latest incident as of
press time.