News broke late Friday, that the immediate past Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola had doled out a princely N78.3m ($400,000) of Tax payer fund to build his personal website.
The revelation arrived via BudgIT; an advocacy number crunching organization which tracks public expenditure and preaches accountability.
Lagos spent N78m for http://t.co/s45EHOrdjj, & N330m on Residence for Deputy Governor. #AskQuestions http://t.co/r27fcqQz6f
— BudgIT (@BudgITng) August 7, 2015
BudgIT quoted a budget report on the website of the Lagos State Public Procurement Agency. The contract was awarded in 2014 to “Info Access Plus Limited”.
Nigerians on the micro-blogging site, Twitter, have been expressing just how displeased they are with the news.
How can you build a WordPress website for 78 million naira? Are you mad? Or am I the mad one for thinking you might be mad? #Nigeria
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) August 7, 2015
Not even website construction o. It's an "upgrade". A personal website. 78m naira.
Goodnight Abeg.
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) August 7, 2015
N78.3 million for a website? Which contractor built it? Julius Berger or Dantata & Sawoe?
— JJ. Omojuwa (@Omojuwa) August 7, 2015
Make we fear God. Even if na small.
— JJ. Omojuwa (@Omojuwa) August 7, 2015
Woke up from sleep, checks my phone, sees N78m website. Abeg, I dey go sleep before una add nightmare join my matter
— Nwachukwu Emmanuel (@emma_dele) August 7, 2015
@toluogunlesi It cost twice as much to build the website for governor than it cost for Julius Berger to rebuild Lagos House #onlyinnigeria
— Archit Tiwari (@archittiwari) August 7, 2015
Painful thing about this N78m website is how it is such low-quality corruption. Very lazy stealing.
— Mark Amaza (@amasonic) August 7, 2015
This had better be some Diamond Bank said Punch published that Abike Dabiri is owing money type mistake. N78.3m? Na mistake.
— Efe Paul Azino (@EFEPAUL) August 7, 2015
@toluogunlesi Errmm, will the website occupy a plot of land in Lekki? #Nigeria
— Christopher Okagbare (@c_okagbare) August 7, 2015
My personal website – http://t.co/21b6lbXwH5 is by many standards better than Fashola's N78 million website. Yet it cost me less than $500.
— Ohimai Godwin Amaize (@MrFixNigeria) August 8, 2015
No. 78.3m? Nah. Unless the website can tell you what Fashola did for every single Street in Lagos + accurately predict so will win BPL.
— Amara Nwankpa (@bubusn) August 8, 2015
If Fashola has spent 78 million Naira on a website, of course, that has to be investigated. Only a blockhead will say move on.
— Dipo Awojide (@OgbeniDipo) August 8, 2015
Fashola upgraded his personal website with N78million Lagos funds? Kudos to @Budgitng for dis expose. Now where is the EFCC? Heads must roll
— AYOKUNLE Odekunle (@Oddy4real) August 8, 2015
Well, Dotun Oyetunde is the owner of the company that collected N78M for that Fashola website. Is Dotun Oyetunde on twitter?
— ADENUSI (@ICON_ADENUSI) August 8, 2015
Is the Fashola website story a publicity stunt for the website, campaign of calumny, or a typographical error? It doesn't make sense.
— Aminu Gamawa (@aminugamawa) August 8, 2015
I just looked at the Fashola website; it looks hand coded with a lot of modern features missing
— Toyan Adeniji-Adele (@adetoyan) August 7, 2015
Wait!!!! At 350 naira to a pound, somebody that fears God, built a WordPress site for 222,857 pounds?
— Nigerian Gatsby (@Ruud_bishop) August 7, 2015
Ekekeee rang the mobile of Fashola’s Special Assistant on media, Mr Hakeem Bello, to react to the news, but his phone wasn’t answered after several attempts.
What are your thoughts?
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