The Lagos State Government through the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, has explained why it shut down popular nightclub, Quilox, on Ozumba Nbadwe Street, Victoria Island on Saturday.
According to The PUNCH, the General Manager, LASEPA, Dolapo Fasawe, disclosed that the agency shut down the facility for organising an event without a sound control permit.
Fasawe revealed that the agency had received numerous distress calls from worried neighbors regarding the alleged environmental nuisance the club had created.
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 pointed out that the club offered an invitation to Quilox, just like it did to every other shareholder, but it was turned down.
Quilox is owned by the lawmaker representing Iseyin/Itesiwaju/Kajola/Iwajowa Federal Constituency, Oyo State, Shina Peller.
