Giwa Gardens Waterpark
Featuring exciting attractions such as water houses, pirate ships, a wave pool, others, Morenikeji Giwa has launched the Giwa Gardens Waterpark in Sangotedo, Lagos recently.
The Giwa Gardens Waterpark is an advanced technology water park in West Africa that offers a thrilling array of rides and attractions providing a perfect family-friendly destination for endless aquatic adventures.
The waterpark earlier opened in December 2023 but was closed by management for additional layers of safety and health procedures. Having satisfied safety requirements, a soft re-launch took place recently, witnessed by the Lagos State Safety Commission led by the Director General and other agency officials.
Speaking on the innovative water park, Giwa said: Its expensive to travel outside Nigeria for holidays and leisure; Dubai banned Visa and flight ticket prices hit the rooftop so I decided to create a waterpark as a succour. I love waterparks but we only have one in Asaba which is just about 1,500 square meters so, I approached my partners and we bought this land where we built the waterpark. The land was procured seven years ago and the initial plan was to build an apartment of 3000 square meters, however, we decided to create a waterpark instead. This waterpark is an extreme river that every 30 seconds, two 30 horsepower machines pump water and flush it out. We have a mechanism that creates a wave; this doesnt exist anywhere in Africa because its hard for people to do it. We have a wave pool, which is an upgraded version of the one built in Abuja. We have air chambers pumping air inside the chamber that pushes down the air and causes waves in the artificial beach. The artificial beach is the largest artificial beach in West Africa.
Giwa continued: We built a huge Waterhouse for the children and it takes 600 children. To us, its not about size but quality, Lagos is expensive, land is expensive so, we believe that quality should be considered ahead of size. Giwa Gardens has the largest waterpark in West Africa by landmass and water volume. We have a 1,100 KVA generator running the whole place and we still need more because we have over 50 pumping machines which are 15 and 30 horsepower.
Speaking on investing in Nigeria, he said: Nigerians in diaspora should be encouraged to invest in Nigeria as I am a Nigerian in diaspora and could have stayed back if I wanted to. Giwa also implored the Lagos State government to construct the Sangotedo roads as this would upscale tourism.