From Joseph Amedu, Lokoja
Otuba Segun Runsewe in red, at another occasion
A 9-man committee set up by the Kogi state governor, Yahaya Bello to develop the first ever Holiday Village in Africa has considered the citing of the project in Lokoja, the state capital.
The committee has come up with an eight-points agenda on how to actualise the mandate.
The committee known as Kogi State Advisory Intervention Committee on Culture and Tourism was inaugurated by the governor late last year.
Rising from a meeting on Wednesday, the Chairman of the committee, Otunba Segun Runsewe, who commended the governor for what he called a bold initiative, told journalists that the committee has distinguished members like Dr Nike Okundaye, Otunba Wanle Akinboboye, Engr Joe Makoju, Dr Ronke Bello and Kehinde Quadri-Adu as members. According to him, the 8-point agenda includes visits to all historical and heritage sites in Kogu state, hosting the very important national stakeholders meeting in Kogi State, trips to farms and sites, interface with brand names in the country, setting up of media players group, building a brand identity for the holiday village, develop feedback mechanism with the state government house and host physical meeting when necessary.
Runsewe who said the committee would send a formal and properly documented strategic report to the governor to enable it approach all the attendant issues, expressed the view that if Governor Bello is able to host the National Industry-Stakeholders’ Meeting this year in the state, Kogi would be the first in the history of the country to to do so.
