Ministerial screening: Fashola Breaks Silence Over N78 Million Website Expenditure

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The former Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola has cleared the air over the contentious N78 million spent to upgrade his  personal website – www.tundefashola.com during his tenure as governor.

In his words when asked by Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe (PDP, Abia South) during the ministerial nominee screening at the senate today.
 

He said “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”.

He further explained that that “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 and it is approved and becomes the  benchmark price of government procurements, nobody can award any other contract over that benchmark.”

"The unfortunate thing about money is that it often raises suspicions even among brothers. Nobody has alleged that I have corruptly enriched myself, I could not be the master of computers and technology, I need something to do my work," he added.

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