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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 us 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
Lagos spent N78m for tundefashola.com, & N330m on Residence for Deputy Governor. #AskQuestions goo.gl/L6UG08
Lol! This must have been designed by @ArturoFirenze for @tundefashola. 
RT @BudgITng: Lagos spent N78m for tundefashola.com...
RT @BudgITng: Lagos spent N78m for tundefashola.com...
Lagos spent N78m for tundefashola.com, & N330m on Residence for Deputy Governor. #AskQuestions goo.gl/L6UG08
@BudgITng how exactly is that amount for a website justifiable? Even Facebook didn't cost that much to build
@BudgITng how exactly is that amount for a website justifiable? Even Facebook didn't cost that much to build
Even the forces in ACN dont want Fashola in PMB's cabinet & he fell right into their hands wit a 78M 'website'
@Damocleansword what's happening?
I am yet to believe that.@tundefashola
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