cooljude:
with people like you that are purely partisan in their argument, Nigeria is doomed already.

Doomed like your piggy head.

Fashola is best governor I've seen in my own time, na where man dey work na em him dey chop. At least he ate but we felt his impact, only 78million and someone has the guts to call him a thief, what then should we call dizeani, obasanjo, abacha? . Fashola will perform excellent I can bet on dat. I just pray he is given the chance to discharge his duties

Edoblakky:
My brother that is our problem ooo. Here in canada, they are preparing for election. Come see better screening. If Fashola was aspiring to an office here and gives that shambolic response he gave to the senate, he will be disgraced.

Nigerians have settled for worse.

TIMEISWISDOM:
Where in the world is this answer resonable?
Am ashamed to be associated with anything related to this set of myopic individuals especially anybody here who is celebrating this irresponsible answer.

Bigots

No wonder Nigeria is a failed state

so you prefer pdp and Jonathan and company

Going by Fashola's reasoning, no Governor or President can be corrupt.

obinnajr:
NOW APC GOVERNMENT ARE CALLING TRANSFORMATION AND YARADUA'S POINT AGENDA A SCAM.... WE ARE NOW EXPERIENCING CHANGE UNDER THOSE THIEVES THAT HAS LOOTED AND DEFRAUDED NIGERIA BEFORE. IMAGINE TINUBU SHOUTING CHANGE AND AMECHI A FOLLOWER OF CHANGE.........

ONE THING ABOUT GOVERNMENT IS THAT " NO ONE STAYS ON TOP FOREVER '" AMECHI MIGHT BE MINISTER OF PETROLEUM AND TINUBU CENTRA BANK GOVERNOR..... NEXT 8 YEARS, REVOLUTION WILL DEFEAT CHANGE AND EVEN BUHARI FAMILY WILL ALSO BE PROBED LIKEWISE AMECHI AND OTHER MONEY LOOTERS

Ehn no wahala
wait till that time

wiseoneking:
Shameless and over hyped governor. Just imagine how he evaded the questions and fumbled disgraceful in the senate. He could not even defend it probably because remi tunibu would have raise objections.lol. But wait, this man is over rated. State of Lagos roads/streets and worst traffic situation is still an eye sore. DECEIT AND HYPOCRICY.

which pdp Man would you pick over him

Segadem:
That was not an answer,
is he not a lawyer?
was that how to answer a judge in court?
"are u guilty or not guilty" then the accused person will now say I'm not guilty with explanation.

The question is did u spend #78m bla bla....
Then I expected him to say yes OR no,then follow with his explanation.

do you still beat your wife. yes or no. I dare you

Crocz:
I'm not convinced at all by this his explanation...he simply dodged the question by stringing seemingly reasonable words together. We all know how things work, some weird looking dude with a plastic hat comes in with the budget...you review and give your approval after being "convinced".

I donno why he simply can't say "yes, the cost of that project upon review was somewhere in that region" or "no, that is an exaggerated figure and it can never be"

Not even a single senator object to how he dodged the question...a simple yes or no would have sufficed...smh

I'm disappointed in Sen. Ben Murray Bruce, all talk no action....bleeping joke!

what do you want Bruce to do. in a Captive Senate. any noise Will be silenced by efcc and CCT. he is plotting his way governorship where he can show what's up in his small enclave

otijah:
I weep for our senators, Fashola just use english disorganize the whole house and the question itself.
To be an educated and talented lawyer its not easy

Anyone who has an impeccable command of the English language wouldn't be fascinated at all, at his average use of vocabulary. It is just unfortunate that mediocrity is commonplace and an average speech is being celebrated by ephemeral individuals, as world class. Our generation needs to wake up to self development for this change to be real.

MizMyColi:


Please, for record purpose....
Did Fashola really say this? I need to be sure. I'm not watching at the mo.

cc: Francizy Kenai Segadem.

Wasn't watching it too but I thought the reply I had read from the OP sounded more like what that guy wrote. So, I don't think he specifically gave that response tho. His response is that of the topic.

mikolo80:
do you still beat your wife. yes or no. I dare you

No and NEVER

Segadem:
No and NEVER

simple yes or no. no extra, Abi no be wetin you talk

good answer

I was actually laughing at the jubilant baboons and monkeys over the way they celebrated a thieving politrickcian sh1tting in their empty skulls.
How can he claim that clearly inflated projects should simply remain inflated because as an EXECUTIVE GOVERNOR
he didn't sign the checkbooks and the APC otimkpus and chimpmunks are celebrating, because he garnished his words with grandiose verbose? lol

Maybe TA orji and co. should also be left off the hook because they were not trained as Accountants and therefore didn't sign the chequebooks.
That means every governor blindly
spent whatever the looney at their
Accountant's office (or whoever is
reponsible for signing chequebooks)
signed off, inflated or deflated, no
questions asked.
When the World health organization
declared last week that majority of
Africans are retar.ded and demented,
they were being very economical with the truth. They were specifically
referring to nigerians. Thank God i'm not nigerian. lol

stancydg:

Anyone who has an impeccable command of the English language wouldn't be fascinated at all, at his average use of vocabulary. It is just unfortunate that mediocrity is commonplace and an average speech is being celebrated by ephemeral individuals, as world class. Our generation needs to wake up to self development for this change to be real.

Word!

ZeroTolerance:
Going by Fashola's reasoning, no Governor or President can be corrupt.

Exactly my thought, and goats like omenka wants us to abandon substance and jubilate at garnished oratory. Illiteracy have made nigerians demented. lol

dboss444:
Fashola is best governor I've seen in my own time, na where man dey work na em him dey chop. At least he ate but we felt his impact, only 78million and someone has the guts to call him a thief, what then should we call dizeani, obasanjo, abacha? . Fashola will perform excellent I can bet on dat. I just pray he is given the chance to discharge his duties

This is what we are saying, either you looted a kobo or trillions, u have looted. Nigerians are shortchanged. If he could upgrade a web #78m, all he could say an institutional process. This tells you how institutionally processed other projects would be carried out. We understand that the institutions are made this way- allowances to president, senators, honourables, chairmen, other MDAs including Central bank officials' allowances, NNPC chiefs' allowances, NDIC, FIRS, Head of service, and what have you should be largely reasonable so as to have funds for capital projects. No to inflated projects either by institutional processes or other means. Hence, you will have a good job, there will be regular electricity, water supply, qualitative healthcare services, good roads, airports, modern railway system, research centres for medical and scientific purposes, agriculture will be modernized, industrial sector will be developed etc. People will have jobs, they will contribute to the societal devt. Insecurity and crime will as a result be reduced, real economic growth will increase, other sectors of the economy will develop. Not that you will start looking at public offices holders' children as gods wen their parents have stolen our commonwealth. I wish you could see what Nigerians are going thru here, harsh weather, unfriendly relations, racism, etc for survival.
If govt is continued to be run this way, we might not get there.
There are a lot of nigerians who couldn't afford education despite the fact that public schools are relatively cheap. Govt is to have a programme to cater for this group. Our senior citizens should be taken care of. All these will fall into place, if public offices holders donot inflate projects again. The institutional barriers should be removed. No to #6.5billion security vote, this should be well- channelled to developmental projects.The cost of election activities should be reduced so as to free the politicians of huge electioneering spends. You will not have to be 40-50 years before you can afford own shelter. This will encourage foreign capital flights. The cost of running a business in Nigeria will be as low as 10% of the sales. Yu pay less on services, food items, consumer goods etc.The era of seeing any public offices holders as gods will no longer be. Everybody will be ok at least unlike 3% of the population we are having now.

We are saying everything should be well managed. Not that what concerns me, after all it is of public funds.

God bless Nigeria

Blakjewelry:
I have always loved this man,

One thing about Nigerians is that when they, "love", it doesn't matter if the person is a thief, a murderer, a ritualist, a fraudster, a cultist, a rapist, a corrupt politician, Nigerians still "love" them.

What a pity!

A governor telling us he's only trained as a lawyer, and is a zombie elsewhere reduces the almighty Fashola to ridicule. It also means if appointed a minister, he would also be "Illiterate" in every other thing outside law and legal practice.

Sir, the question is did you spend such amount for website development? Yes or no.
Don't dazzle the common man you are suppose to serve with big grammer.
If the head is sick, what do you expect from the other members of the body.
The senate president is yet to clear the allegations levelled him.
The question is still waiting for you to answer whenever you are ready sir.

unimpressive answer

Did he spend public funds on his personal website?

anytexy:
But some set of people are hailing him. Nawooo. I don't need to go to school to know he did not answer that question. SmH

Nairaland belongs to yoruba apc. Even if they see black they would still call it white.
Imagine if Gej had said he knew nothing about contacts . They would crucify him on this forum
Bunch of low life hypocrites

onyebuoke:
Did he spend public funds on his personal website?

So the public website cost 78m abi?

Yeye dey smell...

You guys are just hypocrites

sweatlana:

So the public website cost 78m abi?

Yeye dey smell...

You guys are just hypocrites

Leave him, they are feeding him nah...they have upgraded a web #78m by due process. State A built a bridge @ #1.5b by due process, the same coy built d same bridge for State B at #2.5b. They should continue.

It is just a pity that there are some people who don't get such a support. They understand that they are shortchanged by this so-called due process ( at all levels of govt)

My opinion. Nairaland in conjunction with other social sites, must on behalf of Nigerians, organize another round of screening for these nominees, especially after their portfolios have been assigned. And we must request our government that anyone of them, who fails to answer our questions satisfactorily be withdrawn from service. Let's move beyond talk to action now. It is our destiny these guys are playing poker with. The government will listen to us if we make this trend.

If fashola can deceive those senators, he can deceive nigerians. Look @ d rubbish he is saying and yet we have intelligent senators who still beleive him. Nigerians it pains most that we dont know how to vote good senators......

The ministerial screening, beside its boring characteristics, brought forth something important. It showed that Nigerians are sorry to say, unintelligent. The understanding of the performance of the ministerial nominees was adduced by all and sundry, as an intelligent and successful showing, but the truth begs to differ
* FAYEMI, was at best a disgrace to his profession and alma mater. He could not successfully give a real answer to the mountain of allegations, of his financial mismanagement while in office
* Amina Mohammed was talking to herself, and at best sounded like the average female customer care official at the local bank
* Dambazau was so scared of being publicly riducled, that he barely answered any question posed at him
* Audu Ogbeh, stupiD1y implicated himself as a financier and founder of BOKO HARAM
* Fashola, despite being a lawyer with a degree from the prestigious University of Benin, ended up sounding like your average armed robber paraded by the police for the cameras. Its basic law 101, that ignorance of a crime is not innocence
And this people were applauded by the populace. We are in TROUBLE.

OVI75:
This explanation by oga fash does not apease intelligent reasoning.

Tonye barcanister my role model.

Sure! Only illiterates will believe him.

spikesC:
The question is, why should tax payers fund your personal website?
Is everybody literally blind to this?

This is the question I asked the very first time I saw this online.

What happened to his salary?
I bet if he opened the website from his money, it won't cost him up to a million naira.

I have a website that has more contents in it but didn't cost me. 20,000 naira.

Nairaland has millions of posts but the total money it cost since 2005 is not up to 78 million naira.

It is a pity that the South West youths whom I am sure majority of them know about website and the costs, are here supporting this man because he claimed he didn't sign contracts.

What kind of answer was that?
Who signed the contract for his personal website?
Was it his deputy or his wife?

Yet the question is why would Lagos sponsor his personal website?
What happened to the state government website?

But I guess it is a case of "leave my thief alone, your own thief is not better"

vision2050:
Doomed like your piggy head.

mumu/zombie

dboss444:
Fashola is best governor I've seen in my own time, na where man dey work na em him dey chop. At least he ate but we felt his impact, only 78million and someone has the guts to call him a thief, what then should we call dizeani, obasanjo, abacha? . Fashola will perform excellent I can bet on dat. I just pray he is given the chance to discharge his duties

hmmm jim nwobodo stole