26th July, 2016
The Dubai Marina is a tourist resort in Dubai, the United Arab Emirate, UAE.
Ambode spoke with journalists on Tuesday after touring ongoing projects in Epe area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.
According to him, the government had decided to develop its tourists sites that could compete with the best in the world to boost its economic prosperity.
“The Marina road in Epe will be dualised with about five metres of walkway in order to make it pedestrian friendly. The intention is to build a modern Marina that can compete with others worldwide. We have already incorporated some of the world Marina design into the project.
“There might be some hotel and malls that will encourage 24-hour commercial activities. It will be mega terminal for water transportation,” he said, adding that the government gave the project to the contractor, FCC Construction Company based on what it had achieved in the construction sector.
“The reason we embarked on the project simultaneously was that we want replicate what we have studied in Dubai Marina. This is a stretch of two kilometers of real estate and tourist centre in Epe and Badagry.
“We believe that we will grow the Internally Generated Revenue, (IGR) of the state by 2017 to N30 billion and in 2018 to N50 billion. We believe that these projects are inlet to our dream of growing the IGR of Lagos.
“We believe that by the time we expand the tourist potentials of the state, especially Badagry and Epe, we will be able to get new investors into the state. They will be doing other things away from what we already have at the moment,” he said.