DELTA STATE: UPGRADE YOUR ‘WEBSITE’

 We write to point out certain lapses on the website of the Delta State government. First, if you take a quick glance at the January 2023 Budget of Delta State, tagged Delta State Citizens Budget 2023 – budget of seamless and stable transition, you might find a section where there’s a breakdown of how Deltan monies for 2023 will be spent. In that breakdown, I have scanned and picked up my glasses to try to be sure but cannot find any ministry responsible for information and communications.

Perhaps that’s why there are many lapses on the state government’s website? One, it is not really a website but a mere blog, hosted on a cheap template provided by WordPress.com. Two, it appears as if the State has a NATIONAL Assembly instead of a STATE assembly, because that’s what is there on the ‘website’ with pictures completely at variance with the said NATIONAL Assembly of Delta State.

A little further into the so-called website, careful visitors would see that the state government seems to want to spend a lot on education. It has budgeted N6billion to ministry of primary education, N7.40billion to ministry of technical education, another N18billion to a ministry of higher education, and lastly, another N14billion to a ministry of secondary education. And so, the context seems to be that there are serious challenges with education in Delta State. If not, and with all the monies being spent to educate our people, it seems very difficult to get someone who can build a respectable site from scratch for the Delta State government. Delta State gets one of the highest statutory allocations in Nigeria. She has a 13 per cent derivation from the federal purse, and humongous monies are said to be spent on DESOPADEC.

If the government of Delta State is unaware, people get a first impression from the website of a state. Inability to have a very good site is not good enough. And what is worse, getting to host a government site on WordPress is sheer carelessness.  

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku, WADONOR, cultural voice of Nigeria. majirioghene@yahoo.com