Kwara BIT Commissioner Gives Update On Patigi Regatta Motel

Kwara State Government has begun renovation work on the long abandoned Patigi Regatta Motel in Patigi town, opening a new frontier in the State of Harmony’s aggressive tourism drive.

Commissioner for Business, Innovation and Technology (BIT), Hon  Damilola Yusuf  noted that the reconstruction work will span eight months and will include shopping areas and expansive parking space.

The Motel features standard rooms, VIP suites, conference hall, restaurants, and courtyards, among others.

‘We have already handed over the site to the  contractor’, she noted.

The Patigi Regatta Motel is located along Kpada Road (Federal Road) and 1,500m from Kusogi Park in Patigi , Kwara State.

‘The government has embarked on the total rehabilitation and remodeling of the existing structures to expand the tourism potentials of the state, generate jobs, and improve the current revenue generation drive of the state’ the Commissioner submitted while adding that ‘the facility would come handy once the Annual Patigi Regatta and fishing festival is revived for recreational purposes in that axis of the state.