Debo Adeniran's response to Raji Fashola on #78.3 million Website

Season of Letters, Part 2.
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"N78.3 Million Website: We Don’t Mind Wrestling With The Pigs" - Debo Adeniran
The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary defines a “Pig” as an unpleasant or offensive person; a person who is dirty or greedy. Based on this premise, leaders who deliberately run elitist, oppressive and draconian government can only be described by no other name, but pig.

A government that causes so much hardship to the largest stratum of the socio- economic ladder, whereas such it engages in obscene affluence all in the name of white elephant projects that have no direct bearing on the suffering Lagosians is nothing but a pig.
It will be foolhardy for a man who requires pork to say he wouldn’t wrestle with a pig. How does he intend to get it? After all it has been said, “No willing pig provides pork; whoever desires PORK wrestles the pig down for it!
To set the record straight, the PORK we require from these PIGS is accountability; we don’t mind getting dirty to have it. After all, he who fears clay-stain moulds no pot.
The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, CACOL, is not concerned whether Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, has children out of wedlock or not. To us, that is a moral question for the conscience of perpetrators of extra marital affairs. But one thing we know is most of those who smoke are capable of perpetrating any other social vices including marital infidelity.
We are also less concerned about the politics of the National Assembly. However, what we are familiar with is party supremacy. Even at the risk of being misconstrued to have been sponsored by some politicians, we would want to believe that there should be honour among thieves and if somebody lifts your hands up, it is uncharitable to betray such person especially, the platform.
If anybody sabotages the position of his party and betrays the very caucus that brought him into prominence, such a one can also sabotage the position of the citizenry and that couldn’t have enhanced our confidence in such a person, rather it would only lower his integrity rating.
Basically, what concerns us more is the issue of suspected corruption embedded in the award and execution of contracts in the regime of Babatunde Fashola as illuminated by the award of this N78.3 million website contract. Every IT person CACOL has contacted put an over-bloated estimate of the cost of the website at about N6 million. We are not surprised that a contract that could have cost N6million could be ballooned to N78.3 million, because that is a trademark of Mr. Fashola’s administration.
The website contract is an eye opener and lending credence to the allegations of the ‘True Face of Lagos’ where most of the contracts awarded before 2010 were said to have been immorally inflated by the regime of Babatunde Raji Fashola.
If the former governor could be justifying the cost of his personal website, no matter what he uses it for, then there may be many more shenanigans to be unearthed by the relevant anti-graft agencies.
As a matter of fact, we see it as a way by which the former governor laundered at least N68.3 million out of the state coffers because the firm that put that website together had insisted that it only collected N10million.
We are not supposed to be IT specialists, neither are we going to go deeper into the analysis of the content, but from the look of things the use of the website is only opened to the initiates, so of what use is a N78.3 million website when several other developmental needs of the Lagos people he claimed he was ruling are begging for attention?
It is absurd that whereas Lagos State has its own website, the MDAs have their own websites; Mr. Fashola could still construct another website, not as the Governor of Lagos, but in his own name the with taxpayers’ money. This means that the entire N78.3m was spent on the need of the former governor.
Sometimes last year, well-meaning Lagosians were thrown off-balance when The PUNCH published a feature of some Lagos State schools where pupils sit on window sills, damaged furniture, blocks and even bare floors.