RediScala : [NettyTransport(akka://default)] When connect to redis

Question

I am very new to scala programming language and i am getting

[ERROR] [06/26/2016 14:52:36.448] [default-akka.remote.default-remote-dispatcher-5] [NettyTransport(akka://default)] failed to bind to /127.0.0.1:16000, shutting down Netty transport

[ERROR] [06/26/2016 14:52:36.458] [ForkJoinPool-4-worker-7] [akka.remote.Remoting] Remoting error: [Startup failed] [
akka.remote.RemoteTransportException: Startup failed

Whenever i connect to redis using rediscala

Following is the code i am using to get the redis connection

import redis.RedisClient
import scala.concurrent.{Future, Await}
import scala.concurrent.duration._
import scala.concurrent._
import scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext.Implicits.global

object RedisConnection {
  implicit val akkaSystem = akka.actor.ActorSystem()

  def connect(): RedisClient = {
    RedisClient("localhost", 6379)
  }

  def close(): Unit = {
    akkaSystem.terminate()
  }
}

Please help me i have wasted a lot of time to figure the problem