NOISE POLLUTION: LAGOS SHUTS QUILOX CLUB

The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA) on Saturday shut the popular Quilox Club on Ozumba Mbadwe Street, Victoria Island for its failure to comply with directives on organising events and not obtaining a sound control permit from the Agency. The enforcement exercise, which was jointly carried out by the officials of the agency and the Lagos State Task Force, was also a result of several complaints made by residents in the area.

Reacting to the exercise, General Manager, LASEPA, Dr. Dolapo Fasawe disclosed that 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. 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”, she explained.

According to her, an invitation was extended to Quilox Club, like every other stakeholder, but it was ignored by the management for reasons best known to them. She noted that no individual or group is bigger than society, adding that the Agency is still making efforts to ensure that all interests are protected under the law.

“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. 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”, Fasawe added.

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NOISE POLLUTION: LAGOS SHUTS QUILOX CLUB

PointZerom:
I won't forget the dirty things I did in this devil's abode. GOD HAVE MERCY.

owobokiri:
Nigeria is a place where misfits in government expect people on the streets to know the right thing to do and when to do so without the government putting up requisite measures to help both people and businesses to know their limits even before starting off any venture.

Night clubs are generally situated at places where noise won't be an issue. The place to situate such ventures in Lagos should be designated ab initio by the state government. Appropriate structures and monitoring systems should also be in place to help the businesses conduct themselves appropriately.

But here, you get up one day only to see governments bulldozers demolishing houses and offices that were built with permissions from the same Government. You see establishments being torn down for being at the wrong location and you wonder why the agencies in charge allowed the structure to be erected at the "wrong place" in the first place..

tollyboy5:

THIS IS LAGOS
You have to have sense, ignorance of the law is not our business neither is it an excuse.

This is not southeast where anything goes. Thanks.

tollyboy5:

THIS IS LAGOS
You have to have sense, ignorance of the law is not our business neither is it an excuse.

This is not southeast where anything goes. Thanks.

grandstar:
Quilox should be closed down asap. A nightclub shouldn't be at such a location. It will create severe traffic jams.

Its' continuous presence at that location is an indictment on the officials of Lagos

Jostoman:
Who is the owner of the hotel? Hope it's not opposition member that owns the hotel because lagos and polititics of bitterness are like bread and butter.

tollyboy5:

THIS IS LAGOS
You have to have sense, ignorance of the law is not our business neither is it an excuse.

This is not southeast where anything goes. Thanks.

oyatz:

The owner is a serving member of the House of Reps (APC/Itesiwaju/Irepodun Fed Constituency).

Jostoman:
Who is the owner of the hotel? Hope it's not opposition member that owns the hotel because lagos and polititics of bitterness are like bread and butter.

Jostoman:
Who is the owner of the hotel? Hope it's not opposition member that owns the hotel because lagos and polititics of bitterness are like bread and butter.

RobsonsTARz:
I thought that building is sound proof?

Hope it' s not political sha

oyatz:

The owner is a serving member of the House of Reps (APC/Itesiwaju/Irepodun Fed Constituency).