The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, on Saturday, has again shut down a popular nightclub, Quilox, on Ozumba Nbadwe Street, Victoria Island, for organising an event without a sound control permit.
LASEPA in a statement on Sunday said the enforcement exercise was jointly carried out by its officials and those of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit (task force) around 4 pm on Saturday.
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 nightclubs 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 interests.
“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.
It would be recalled that Quilox was also shut in December 2019 by LASEPA over noise pollution and traffic congestion.
The owner, Peller was also arrested by the police over the incident.
