Ex-Model Drags Trevor Ombija Into Noise Complaints Row
Hours after attending a meeting between bar and restaurant owners and residents in the area, one of them has come out to accuse the owner of refusing to address the noise pollution issue.
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Citizen TV prime-time news anchor, Trevor Ombija's defence of his approach to dealing with noise complaints by residents neighbouring his club in Kileleshwa, Nairobi, suddenly took a turn for the worse.
Hours after attending a meeting between bar and restaurant owners and residents in the area, one of them has come out to accuse the owner of refusing to address the noise pollution issue.
Emma Too, who happens to be a former model, shared a series of explosive tweets including screenshots of a detailed communication between her and the owner stretching back to July 2022.
According to the messages, the owner claimed that the joint was still within the accepted limits of a mixed commercial and residential area and that she was trying to mitigate the sound using technology such as bass absorbers, designed to damp low-frequency sound energy with the goal of attaining a flatter low frequency (LF) room response by reducing LF resonances in rooms.
An image of Samaki Samaki restaurant in Kileleshwa, Nairobi. /TWITTER
They are commonly used in recording studios, mastering rooms, home theatres and other rooms built to provide a critical listening environment.
The owner added that she was still willing to soundproof Too's house on condition that the former model gets a permit from the Nairobi County government as well as a signed document from her landlord allowing the alterations on the house.
“The biggest mistake is to lie! Biggest mistake. Yet, I thought the real owner was a decent woman, I was badly mistaken, she just sat there and listened as he lied. Soundproof my bedroom only and the other residents,” Too said in her Twitter post.
She went a step further and shared videos of her struggling to sleep due to the reverberating noise from the loud music playing from the entertainment joint next to her house.
"Now how do you soundproof a split-level house and not the actual club?! What will other residents do? Will they also soundproof the whole street? Turn down the music and stop parking at my house!" she wrote.
Kileleshwa Member of the County Assembly (MCA) Robert Alai, who was the first to complain about the bars and clubs in the area causing noise pollution, shared a video of Ombija speaking during a forum on Wednesday morning, October 12, criticising his call for landlords to soundproof their houses.
According to the Monday Report show host, the county government should pay close attention to the complaints raised, saying that clubs should not be closed over a few complaints from residents living in the environs surrounding them.
“When there is a complaint against a bar owner or a restaurant, let us have more than half of the people complaining. If the apartments are twenty, fifteen of them should show us their list, signed, and tell us this is the problem,” he said.
Alai was unhappy with his recommendation as reports can reveal that Ombija co-owns Samaki Samaki, one of the clubs that were earmarked for closure over noise pollution, located along Othaya Road. Ombija however argued that he had a neighbour who wanted his entertainment joint to be closed down because he did not give her a landscaping job.
Meanwhile, Nairobi Deputy Governor Njoroge Muchiri reinstated the licences of the 43 joints on condition that they comply with the set regulations and that the bars and restaurants should not interfere with the livelihood of other Kenyans.
Muchiri further called upon the business owners to keep engaging with their neighbours and residents' associations to address any concerns and avoid colliding with each other as witnessed in recent months.
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