Fashola Explains Detty December As Means Of Tourism In Nigeria

The former Governor of Lagos state Babatunde Raji Fashola explains that detty December should serve as a means of tourism in Nigeria.
According to Fashola, If you use your search engine and search for detty December you will see an entry by Wikipedia they are already monetary but it’s happening here.

They found out that in the month of December, remittances from the diaspora is already equivalent to 4% of Nigerians GDP . Is that a developmental opportunity? Who is curating it ? Who is branding it ? Who is mobilizing the manpower around it?

Nations live on a subset of tourism that we call MICE an acronym for meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions but it’s about destination one of the things that had come out from this last event of detty December is that it has opened a positive image for Nigeria all of the young men and women who has come here from other nations of the world are relieving their experiences on social media so there’s interest in the place called Lagos Nigeria and we can expand it. How do we expand it is for us to be deliberate, to be intentional and to have mandate around tourism.

Detty December has opened the door, are we ready to seize it ?
Why should detty December end in Lagos ?
Why should it not spread?
Are we preparing for the next one ?
Who are going to provide the accommodations?

There was almost shortage of accommodations last year, so how many of us are ready to leave our home, furnish them and rent them out during the period because the demand will come and that’s income , that’s opportunity and prosperity from tourism but if we don’t respond they will go somewhere else . There’s a lot of work to be done said Babatunde Raji Fashola.