The common Quilox evening membership in Victoria Island has been shut down by the Lagos State Government, by way of, the state Environmental Protection Agency, LASEPA, over non-compliance to company directive and organizing occasion with out acquiring sound management allow.
The enforcement train which was collectively carried out by the company and Lagos State Task Force occurred round 4.30pm after receiving a number of complaints by the neighbors.
Confirming the seal off train, LASEPA, General Manager, Dr. Dolapo Fasawe, stated that the measure grew to become obligatory following a number of misery calls with video proof (s) acquired from involved neighbors to assist their claims on alleged environmental nuisances constituted by the membership with out recourse to the precise of host group to peaceable setting.
According to Fasawe 👇🏻
“To avert scenario like this, we just lately held a stakeholder’s parley with the Owners/ Chief Executive Officers of evening golf equipment within the state to handle the difficulty of noise air pollution in the course of the festive interval.
“The states in its magnality, compassionately elevated the decibels to accommodate leisure/hospitality enterprise curiosity.
“We urged them to apply for sound control permits to enable us reach out and notify the host community of the intended program and further deploy our officials to the venue for proper monitoring and prevention of excessive noise pollution.”
According to Fasawe,
“invitation was extended to Quilox club, like every other stakeholders and was ignored by the club for reasons best known to them.”
She famous that no particular person or group is greater than the society and additional harped on effort being made by her company to make sure that all curiosity is protected beneath the legislation.
“Entertainment and Lagos are like a conjoined twin, thus our prolific intervention to protect the sanctity of the state and on the similar time maintain its financial relevance by way of aggressive environmental sustainability drive.
“To support the entrepreneurship interest of the operators, we had an agreement at the stakeholder’s parley, came up with a communique which serves as a bond guiding all parties on mode of operations during the yuletide period and consequences inherent in non compliance to environmental mutual agreement, ” Fasawe stated.
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