National Sports Commission Spent N1.2m on Facebook

             I am sure it is no news  that the National Sports Commission spent the sum of N1.2m to open a Facebook Page. This is what the commission had to say:

i) The idea to open a Facebook Page for the National Sports Commission (NSC) was muted by the ICT Unit of the Commission. The objective of the project was to “use Facebook as an interactive forum to connect the Nigerian youth all over the world with the National Sports Commission and its mission”.

ii) During the course of briefing the immediate past Hon. Minister of Sports/Chairman, National Sports Commission, Alh. Yusuf Suleiman, he directed that a more aggressive approach be adopted in projecting the Facebook Page. The Hon. Minister (HM), who has a personal Facebook Page, also directed that the Facebook crew should accompany him to visit all the athletes and their coaches who were in various camps across the country in preparation for the 10th All Africa Games. Furthermore, he directed that the crew should attend the 10th AAG in Maputo to update the Page on happenings during the Games.

iii) Consequent upon the Hon. Minister’s directives, a Memo dated August 2, 2011 seeking for N902,000.00 was approved for a two-man team to visit the various camps. This was to enable the crew interact directly with the athletes and their coaches and obtain firsthand information about them for Facebook Page.

iv) Following the directive of the HM to adopt a more aggressive approach in projecting the Facebook Page, it was decided at the ICT Unit level that the NSC Facebook Page should be advertised in Facebook. An initial sum of $200 was committed to this. This immediately translated to a tremendous increase in the followership of the NSC Facebook within one week.

v) It is no secret that Facebook Pages can either be used as:
a) a personal social interactive forum; or
b) a commercial tool to advertise goods and services, project a cause, draw awareness to products, canvass for followership, etc.
The Commission’s Facebook Page was deployed for the second category, which naturally attracts advertisement costs. The creators of Facebook can be contacted on this.

vi) Furthermore, following the success of the advert, another memo dated August 26, 2011 for N300,000.00 was approved to step up and extend the advertisement of the Page, purchase Internet Modems with a one month additional subscription.

vii) We wish to state that:
a) Opening of Facebook pages does not attract any form of payment and the NSC Facebook Page was opened at no cost.
b) The initial $200 paid for advertisement was privately funded.
The sums of N902,000.00 and N300,000.00 were approved for the Facebook Page crew to accompany the HM on his visits to the various camps of athletes and their coaches and to purchase internet modems with additional one month subscription respectively. Of this amount, the sum of $1,000 (N160,000.00) was to advertise the NSC Facebook Page in Facebook and the Page was so advertised.

My Analysis:

       First, you will all agree with me that this is day light robbery!. This corruption we are all fighting against in the country can never be eradicated. Why? Because it is performed by the so called elite who are meant to be watch dogs in the economy. Now see, they came out to tell Nigerians that ‘the sums of N902,000.00 and N300,000.00 were approved for the Facebook Page (Who are this imaginary facebook crew?) crew to accompany the HM on his visits to the various camps of athletes and their coaches and to purchase internet modems with additional one month subscription respectively. Of this amount, the sum of $1,000 (N160,000.00) was to advertise the NSC Facebook Page in Facebook and the Page was so advertised’.  This is the country that didn’t make it to the All Africans Cup of Nations, after spending such a huge amount.

Corruption is in the heart of our leaders, when people in public office are brave enough to defend their corrupt malpractices, we know that calamity is decending, and its gonna fall on the so called  cabals.  In the words of Hon. Patrick, he calls it; government of the cabals, by the cabals, and for the cabals, and trust;  it’s not only called camalatocrazy, it is exitiuminocracy… which means destruction in latin.- Government of destruction, by destruction, and for destruction.