Ex-Model Emma Too To Sue Trevor Ombija's Restaurant

Too claimed that the loud music from the restaurant has inconvenienced several neighbours, including an embassy that sits on the other side of the club.

She added that the conversations made by the attendants of the joint were also too loud as they were listening to the loud music which made them shout at each other.

“Even after the music is switched off at 3 or 4 am,  the patrons are still talking loudly to each other because they’ve been listening to loud music and shouting at each other. We’re still not able to sleep,” added Too.

She however clarified that her intention was not to have any business shut down but to have them respect the people who live where they come to open their bars and clubs.

The tiff between Too and Ombija began on Wednesday, October 12 when she accused him in a series of tweets of refusing to address the noise pollution issue. She included 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.

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.