ENTERTAINMENT PROJECT
...TARGETS DECEMBER 2020 FOR NEW SHOPPING MALL

By: Lawrence Ekong

Akwa Ibom State Government has begun the remodelling and reconstruction of Ibom Tropicana Entertainment Complex into a functional world class shopping mall with international franchise, stores and premium lifestyle centers.

The Commissioner for Information, Sir Charles Udoh made this known yesterday, while on an inspection visit to the facility to assess the level of work so far done on the project.

While expressing satisfaction with the level of work so far, Sir Charles Udoh who was accompanied on the assessment tour by the Chairman, Technical Committee on Foreign Direct Investment, FDI, Mr. Gabriel Ukpe, stated that Governor Udom Emmanuel remains committed to uplifting the standard of living of Akwa Ibom people through projects capable of stimulating the economy, especially as part of Post Covid-19 Economic Reconstruction Plans of his administration.

The Commissioner said that the mall expected to come alive before December this year, would create job opportunities for the youths in the state, increase the state's GDP and enhance manpower development, which he noted are cardinal to the Completion Agenda of Governor Udom Emmanuel.

He expressed optimism that with the pace of the remodelling work on the project, the mall will be completed in record time.

Also speaking, the Chairman of the Technical Committee on Foreign Direct Investment, FDI, Mr. Gabriel Ukpe said, the project is one of Governor Udom Emmanuel's relentless efforts at making Akwa Ibom an investor's haven.

Mr. Gabriel Ukpe added that the Governor is a visionary leader, with the drive to attract foreign direct investments to the State, which he said is paying off, as more investors now throng the state seeking various business opportunities.

He therefore urged Akwa Ibom citizens to seize the numerous opportunities that abound in the state to better their lots.

Conducting the duo round the facility, the Chief Executive Officer of Median Construction Development Nigerian Limited Mr. Olumide Akinsanya, hinted that as partners to Akwa Ibom State Government in the development of the the Ibom Tropicana Mall, under a Public Private Partnership, ( PPP ) arrangement, his company is saddled with the responsibilities of redesigning and remodeling the complex into a functional mall with an additional mandate to occupy and manage the facility.

He intimated that the facility's anchor, the Market Square, is expected to commence operations as soon as the remodelling of the complex is completed.

The Ibom Tropicana Entertainment Complex is located at the Central Business District of Uyo, the State capital.

It was left uncompleted despite huge resources sunk into it by the immediate past administration.

Was it ever abandoned?

Afam4eva:
Was it ever abandoned?

Yes. Only part working was the cinema. Forget all those glamorous pictures you see online, they are computer generated. In real sense, the place isn't compared to the pictures you see online

Good one if true

Afam4eva:
Was it ever abandoned?

It was abandoned

Udom is working
Mbok work harder for the people of Akwa Ibom state.
God bless Akwa ibom

In my next life I'll still want to be from akwa ibom....akwa ibom ayaya

Factfinder1:
In my next life I'll still want to be from akwa ibom....akwa ibom ayaya

Wow, that lovely....which state are you from

PositiveDirect:
Good one if true

Is true sir

Afam4eva:
Was it ever abandoned?

The mall side was abandoned

By Nigeria standard, Akwa Ibom state has been blessed with good Governors. I have been there.

More on the renovation
Nice one bro

Ilaumoh:

Wow, that lovely....which state are you from

Akwa ibom

Nigerian governor's are useless O! You budget Billions of Naira for a project and abandon it later, after spending billions.

Biafra territory

leofab:
Biafra territory

God forbid! Akwa Ibom can never be part of Bia-fraud even in their dream.
The world will take those clowns seriously when fix Abia state, the capital of Ipigs

Bia-fraud territory

tutudesz:
Nigerian governor's are useless O! You budget Billions of Naira for a project and abandon it later, after spending billions.

it depends sha

Akwa ibom is on the rise again, we should try and make things work in the state. kudos to d governor.

Hmmmm

Legacies of Akpabio, " money miss road Governor", Donatus no. 1
May we never see such a man like that as governor in AkwaIbom, 4ver n ever

leofab:
Biafra territory

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SHARAP

If I talk now, they will say I don start. Some things are not forced, they take their natural course. Tropicana wey I watch movies for N250 sometime in 2014 was closed down. Why?. Because the city of Uyo could not support it's existence.