Dalung: FG to concession Abuja, Lagos stadiums

The Federal Government says it will go ahead with plans to concession the Lagos and Abuja stadiums, The Punch reports.

Minister of Sports and Youth development, Solomon Dalung said this on Tuesday when he addressed Statehouse correspondents after briefing President Muhammadu Buhari on the nation’s performance at the 2016 Rio Paralympics games.

The minister said, “I agree that there is under-utilisation of sports facilities in Abuja. That has taken us to the issue of concession.

“The facilities cannot be managed effectively by government, looking at the budgetary allocation for even the maintenance.

“Government cannot maintain those things. So what we intend to do is to proceed with the concession process we met on the ground.”

According to Dalung, the Federal Executive Council in 2012 approved the concession of the Lagos and Abuja stadiums.

 

The minister said, “We have also received the drawing on the proposed transformation of the places, which will include the creation of artificial lake at the Abuja Stadium that will provide for 12 water sports; then the building of a five-star hotel in Abuja.

“Lagos will have the same thing. The adjoining land will have a park and a five-star hotel.

“The moment you put these two, the economic status of the stadium will be uplifted and you will have foreign athletes coming in because there will be facilities. That’s the best way we can maximise the stadium in Abuja in view of how it was located.”

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