Mummy wa, ẹ kalẹ ma. Yes the Railway e-tickets' platform is said to be valued at 900m at the end of 10 years. Based on the publication by the minister for transport, @ChibuikeAmaechi and that of @MinTransportNG the whole partnership and platform comprises of the following https://twitter.com/obyezeks/status/1352888769205166080

A: The application layer: public facing website, mobile app and check-in counter booking apllication and probably an admin dashboard.

B: The hardware: ticket vending machines and the access control gates. May also include independent power supply (solar and batteries) *

C: Platform (infrastructure): steady internet supply local and remote (cloud servers) that allows the vending machine, the app, the websites and the access control gates work in sync. Depending on the architecture we may have these per station or as a whole

D: Insurance: another set of "hoodlums" may attack the physical infrastructure in probably another protest backed by people of your kind, since it is private funded, it will be good if physical assets are insured from incidents, accidents and including the elements

E: Maintenance and Depreciation: especially for the physical assets things get broken and depreciation will be calculated

F: Human Resource:Tech Support, software developers, Dev-ops engineers, hardware engineers both on call and outsourced.

G: Time Value of Money and General Valuation of Money: how much will 900m in 10 years be worth in today's money going by the current inflation rate., what are the opportunity costs. If the contractor invests that amount of money in another business what's the profit/loss margin

H: Government Policies: will another government come after 2023 and frustrate or cancel the PPP, will the Nigerian factor come into play? What is the assurance from the government that the PPP will benefit both parties?

I am sure there are other components to these things, but I have highlighted these based on my experience and qualifications in Tech and in Business. For Item A above, engineer @TosinOlugbenga already boast of deploying it for a maximum of 10m, I think he's being clever by half

To deploy a project of that magnitude on a cloud host like AWS ensuring speed, availability and security, we will budget at least $20k/annum for all the servers including load balancers, databases, storage, bandwidth utilization, backups and a sustainable disaster recovery plan

For the kiosks and vending machines, a quick Google search placed a single unit at approximately £10,000 let's assume shipping and handling is FOC, which is not. The whole length will require a min of 10, 1 in minor stations and more than 1 in major stations

These kiosks will be connected to an "always online" internet service for synchronization and they will always be powered if not for 24 hours, while the station is opened. We will factor in cost of solar panels and batteries.

Another quick Google search gives a quotation of around $25k for the fabrication and deployment of bespoke access control gates that will bar unauthorized entry to the platform. Each station will have 1, if we do the math including spares and parts, we are looking at $200k

We will assume that insurance cost of all these will be paltry 1% of these cost per annum, so we move!!!! Na shikini money, no shaking. We will assume 10% of the total cost for maintenance and with a dedicated staff strength of 20 let us assume wages and salaries of $100k/annum

Ma, one thing we both share in common is that we both smart, but one thing you display here is that when it comes to Nigerian politics, you are both selfish and maliciously evil and you will rather get the accolades of the bandwagon than being fair. Smartness and evil is deadly

For a chartered accountant who has been to Harvard, a Deloitte and Touche trainee, world Bank VP and unfortunately a self aclaimed pastor, though you really did not record great achievements while in government, your records by association while out of government is stellar

Please do not let local politics make you sound extremely unintelligent and maliciously evil.

We can bash the PPP partners when they have failed, not before they fail. Anticipating failure for the startup company that has distinguished itself in projects of this magnitude is

Of every bad taste. This same company led by an entrepreneur strong young woman is breaking barriers in the tech especially tech startup ecosystem including fintech, please do not allow us use palm-wine-shed politics rubbish this good woman and her work

hopefully you get to read this to this end if at all you read it.

My regards to oga and the children. Please stay safe and wear your mask