News report that former governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola shelled N78.3million of Lagos tax-payers money on his personal website, has stirred a huge buzz on twitter.
In tweets and retweets, commentators have been expressing derision and disgust that the former governor could have approved such a questionable expenditure under his watch.
The consensus is that the cost was grossly exaggerated and over-inflated.
A WordPress website, like http://tundefashola.com/http://tundefashola.com/ should not cost more than N3million, according to expert opinions.
The story was broken by BudgIT, quoting a budget report on the website of the Lagos State Public Procurement Agency.
The contract was awarded in 2014 to “Info Access Plus Limited”. A Google search by TheNEWS did not turn anything out about the company.
Here are sample tweets on the contract;
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
DOCUMENTS | Fashola Upgraded http://t.co/S6MDutd9ir Website for N78 Million – LASG http://t.co/pcT2ZsXsq0 pic.twitter.com/El3s8jF3lL
— Breaking Times (@BTBreakingTimes) August 7, 2015
Web: 110m Site: 40m Host: 10m Ing: 15.87m Value: 3% Added Tax: 2% TOTAL: 174.6m Discount: 50% FINAL TOTAL: 78.3m https://t.co/csGIMPu0vp
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) August 7, 2015
This is the only project that Lagosians know the cost. What about others? A can of worms. Domesticate FOI asap https://t.co/vBH8UcoNa1
— IKECHUKWU (@iykimo) August 7, 2015
