Lagos Begins Action On Ending Noise Pollution, Seals Nightclubs, Hotels

The Lagos State government is set to enforce its laws on environmental pollution as the state’s Environmental Protection Agency(LASEPA) has sealed 15 hospitality facilities including hotels within seven days.

The affected facilities were shut down for environmental pollution and the General Manager of the agency, Dr Dolapo Fasawe, who said this lamented upsurge in noise polution in the state.

According to a statement on Sunday , Fasawe spoke during the enforcement programme of the agency, disclosing that 50 complaints over environmental pollution were received and LASEPA closed down 15 facilities.

She lamented what she described as the flagrant disobedience of some hospitality/leisure operators to environmental laws guiding their business operations.

She, however, said the agency would not relent in ensuring compliance to the existent law

The statement read, “We responded to over 50 complaints on noise pollution and sealed 15 facilities after verification and confirmation of claims.

“This calls for caution and responsiveness on the part of all concerned.

“The issue of noise pollution has become a perennial problem that is posing a serious threat to the sanity, stability and peace of mind of victims”.

“Reports received in recent times are mostly about earlier sealed and re-opened facilities, indicating non-adherence to rules and regulations by the sanctioned operators. Their short-lived compliance is thereby pretentious and deceptive and shall be dealt with in accordance with the extant laws”, she averred.

“It is disheartening to note that the standard of compliance, particularly from recalcitrant pollutants that had earlier been sanctioned, and later given a clean bill for complying with extant laws are still engaging in the act of noise-making.”