The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency has
sealed the Hardley Apartments, on Victoria Island.
The hotel was among other hotels, churches and mosques
sealed across the state on Monday over alleged air and
noise pollution.

No fewer than 30 facilities were shut in areas, including
Ketu, Ikorodu, Ibeju-Lekki, Victoria Island and Surulere.
LASEPA said the owners of the facilities had been
contacted several times in the last one year, adding that
they refused to fully complied with LASEPA?s instructions.
At a mosque in Ketu ? Olorunkemi Mosque ? the leaders
claimed to have taken down their speakers as instructed
by the agency almost immediately.
However, the mosque was sealed for allegedly not
complying fully with LASEPA?s instruction.
Other places also sealed include the Rain of Power and
Miracles Ministry Church, Lekki Christ Apostolic Church,
Lekki Duckland Hotels and Suites, Ikorodu and Mela
Rossa Club, Victoria Island.
At the Hardley Apartments, it was noticed that the
generators powering the hotel had large exhaust pipes
facing the road.
The Director of Enforcement, Kayode Bello, ordered that
one of the generators be tested, and it was discovered
that it gave off thick gaseous emissions.
Bello said, ?Even the sound is going to be more than 45
decibels at night. We want you to comply ? that is the
reason we are here. We have been on this for more than a
year.?
The doors and gates of the hotel were subsequently
chained, and plastered with the LASEPA seal.
Later at a press briefing in Ikeja, LASEPA General
Manager, Rasheed Shabi said, ?The environment belongs
to every one of us. Lagosians need to live in peace. A
survey was carried out by an international organisation
and it was discovered that 60 per cent of Nigerians have
hearing problem.
?LASEPA, in the last two to three years, has been
conducting surveys on religious houses, and our findings
revealed that 95 per cent of them do not have approval to
operate in Lagos.
?Most houses and club houses do not have fiscal planning
approval. Before you can build any hotel anywhere in the
world, there must be an environmental impact assessment.
?Most of the markets we have in Lagos State we have
people using trucks to sell their products with speakers to
disturb the peace of Lagosians. Soon, we will tow as many
trucks as possible to get them off the streets.?
Shabi said the owner of the places sealed would sign an
undertaking that they would comply with instructions
meant to clean up the environment.
?After today, the enforcement unit will go round. Anybody
that breaks the seal has violated the Lagos State law. We
will then involve the Ministry of Justice,? Shabi added.

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