Behold Abuja Amazon Kayak, Aqua Garden Where Nature Meets Fun, Businesses

For those residing in Abuja, the surrounding states and they are thinking of where to visit for recreational activities during this yuletide season, the place to be ie Amazon Kayak and Aqua Garden in Jabi, Abuja.

A trip to the Amazon kayak and Aqua garden by www totorinews.com was filled with great display of aquatic splendour, combined with natural resources in a beautiful environment, which stamps the fact that Abuja, Nigeria is indeed a splendid place to live and have fun.

In this light, we directed our camera to Hon. Khamisu Ahmed Mailantarki, the brain behind these laudable projects in Abuja, who has the triple honours of being the CEO of Mailantarki Care Foundation, Amazon Kayak and Aqua Gardens, narrated what motivated him to establish this recreational centre.

“In Nigeria we have a lot of natural resources and beautiful environment which can be turned around to look like what is seen in Dubai, UK, United Kingdom, the United States and other beautiful places in the world,” Hon. Mailantarki said.

“We have travelled far and wide. So taking advantage of the natural environment that we have, we sat down to think of how we can make this garden to have a similar environment that will make people in Abuja not to have need of travelling abroad to have a feel of natural beautiful environment.

“That is the reason we established Amazon Kayak where we took advantage of the natural environment like water, we sat down and thought about establishing this garden.

“A lot of people when they come here are always shock to know that we have such beautiful works of nature in Nigeria, here in Abuja, here in Jabi. It is amazing to see their pleasant expressions when they come to Amazon Kayak.

“Everyday, people come here to have picnics, have their events, go canoeing, take photos as they celebrate their special occassions.

“This is one of the ways of helping to develop Abuja in our own way,” he added.

He also spoke about the Aqua garden, where he revealed that his fish farming is the highest production of cat fish in Abuja and very soon 25% of cat fish consumption in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) will be be coming from the garden.

“We also have the Aqua garden. It is primarily targeted at cat fish production and as today, we are the highest supplier of cat fish in Abuja because we put into the market about 10 thousand kg every week and with our expansion, we are hoping to increase it to 30 thousand kg every week into the market, which represent about 25%.of the weekly consumption in Abuja.

“It is not a rocket science. We just looked at the technology of how can we combine two, using the nature and some modern technology, where we maximised the use of space and produce large.

“In our hatchery, we produce up to one million fingerlings, we hatched them from their eggs. We have a modern fish hatchery.

As a mark of a topnotch professionalism in the production of cat fish to meet the required standard, Hon. Mailantarki said that he reached out for the services of a Dutch from Netherlands to be in charge.

“I employed the services of a Dutch fish professional from Netherlands, who is a renowned fish farmer of more than 30 years experience. He is the one that is running the akwa cultural part of the garden.

“We don’t have to go anywhere. We believe we can do it here and that is very evident.

“If you look at people around, some of them are students from Nigeran universities who are here on industrial attachment and some NYSC Corpers are also here.

“By coming here, they learnt how to practically get involved in cat fish production and some of them have set up their own fish farm and they are doing well, which is our main target of contributing to the food security of Nigeria.

As the conversation continued, he informed that the investment did not have support from the government, despite the positive contribution to the development of Abuja, Nigeria.

“We are doing these without any support from any government or institutions. We are doing it from our pocket. We thank God that we are doing well and everyone is happy. People are getting what they deserves.

“We are even expanding to accommodate table tennis court, the gym, the restaurant. It is going to be one stop for recreational activities combined with businesses and very soon, this place will be number one recreational sporting place in Nigeria, not only in Abuja,” he concluded.