{"id":41113,"date":"2015-08-09T16:31:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T15:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=41113"},"modified":"2015-08-09T16:31:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T15:31:39","slug":"outrage-over-fasholas-spending-of-n78million-lagos-funds-on-own-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/outrage-over-fasholas-spending-of-n78million-lagos-funds-on-own-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Outrage over Fashola\u2019s spending of N78million Lagos funds on own website"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1439134236386_2262\" class=\"base-card-body\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1439134236386_1581\" class=\"msg-body inner  undoreset\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1439134236386_2264\" class=\"email-wrapped\">\n<div id=\"yiv6010854325\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The immediate past governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, approved an outrageous N78.3 million from the state\u2019s treasury for the upgrade of his personal website, details of the contract awarded in 2014, show.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1439134236386_2265\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The mind-boggling expenditure published on the state public procurement office\u2019s website, was first exposed by foremost budget analytic firm, BudgiT.<br \/>\nOther questionable expenditures incurred by the administration include N1.2 billion vaguely spent on the \u201cconstruction of pedestrian bridges along Oti-Osa Lekki-Epe Expressway\u201d. The spending did not specify the number of bridges.<br \/>\nIn the same year, the government also awarded contract for the provision of wall signage in three magistrate courts at the cost of N17 million.<br \/>\nThe Fashola administration further spent N3.46 billion for the construction of a beach resort in Ilase and N61 million for a Range Rover SUV and 2 Toyota Hilux trucks as the official vehicle of the Chief Judge of the State.<br \/>\nThe document shows that the administration also spent N85 million for the repair and replacement of street signs.<br \/>\nOther curious expenses contained in the document include N330 million spent for the development of the residence of Mr. Fashola\u2019s deputy, Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, and N94 million spent on \u201cprinter consumables\u201d.<br \/>\nThe contract for the refurbishing of the former governor\u2019s personal website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tundefashola.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.tundefashola.com<\/a>, was awarded to \u201cInfo Access Plus Limited\u201d, by the office of the chief of Staff of the governor.<br \/>\nCuriously, for a company that specialises on building and upgrading websites, a Google search for Info Access Plus, revealed that the company has no website of its own.<br \/>\nAccording to information technology experts, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tundefashola.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.tundefashola.com<\/a>, created by the firm for the former governor, is a WordPress website and an upgrade could not have cost more than N300, 000.<br \/>\nOutrage<br \/>\nThe news of the expenditure has elicited outrage from Nigerians, with many using their social media accounts to lambast the governor, who was widely seen as one few upright politicians who could be given a cabinet position by President Mohammadu Buhari.<br \/>\nAs the time of filing this report, the spending was trending on Twitter with 9,481 tweets.<br \/>\nTwitter user @Ruud_bishop exclaimed: \u201cWait!!!! At 350 naira to a pound, somebody that fears God, built a WordPress site for 222,857 pounds?\u201d<br \/>\nA blogger, Chukwudi Iwuchukwu, said on his Facebook page that \u201che consensus is that the cost was grossly exaggerated and over-inflated. A WordPress website, like <a href=\"http:\/\/tundefashola.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/tundefashola.com\/<\/a> should not cost more than N3million, according to expert opinions.\u201d<br \/>\nA Twitter handle said, @cchukudebelu, said \u201c1. The lesson from Fashola is \u201call have sinned &amp; fallen short of God\u2019s glory\u201d, now let us seek redemption. My point: there are no saints.\u201d<br \/>\nAnother Twitter user, Tolu Ogunlesi, tweeted through his handle, @toluogunlesi,: \u201cHow 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?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201c@bubusn also tweeted \u201cNo. 78.3m? Nah. Unless the website can tell you what Fashola did for every single Street in Lagos + accurately predict so will win BPL\u201d<br \/>\nWhen contacted, Mr. Fashola\u2019s media aide, Hakeem Bello, dropped the call after this reporter introduced himself and did not answer subsequent calls to his mobile number.<br \/>\nHe has also not replied text messages sent to him for asking the former governor to explain why such huge amounts were spent on the projects.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1439134236386_2263\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Premium Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"base-card-clear\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The immediate past governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, approved an outrageous N78.3 million from the state\u2019s treasury for the upgrade of his personal website, details of the contract awarded&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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