By Ehi Ekhator, United Kingdom
The Immediate past governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola cleared the controversial issue of N78.3m spent on the upgrade of his personal website, www.tundefashola.com.
It could be recalled that Nigerians lashed Fashola for spending an outrageous amount to upgrade a website built on wordpress, a free application with premium version.
Responding to the question raised by Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe that he spent a whooping sum of N78.3m to build website while undergoing screening as a ministerial nominee at the senate chamber on Wednesday, Fashola said he didn’t sign checks as a governor, procurement went through due process.
He said ” I didn’t sign checks or award contracts, I don’t fix contract prices, it is an institutional process. The only training I have is that of a lawyer, But in order to execute works on a project we need the input of architect, quantity surveyors, structural engineer and we have consulting ministries; For civil works it is the Ministry of Works, for science it is the Ministry of Science and Technology among others.
“Now periodically, they do market surveys with the Ministry of Economic Planning , the Statisticians are there to fix prices from biro to Iron rod to cement it is approved and it becomes the benchmark price of government procurement, nobody can award any other contract over that benchmark.”
“The unfortunate things about money is that it often raises suspicions even among brothers. Nobody have alleged that I have corruptly enriched myself, I could not be the master of computers and technology, I need something to do my work. or award contracts.”
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