N29 Billion Not Enough To Maintain Federal Roads- Reps Committee

The Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Federal Road Maintenance Agency, FERMA, Hon Femi Bamisile, has described N29bn budget for FERMA, in this year’s budget as grossly inadequate.

 Bamisile who lamented over the deplorable condition of federal roads in the country urged the Federal Government t to release the sum of 12 billion naira to the agency for road rehabilitation before yuletide season.

He made the call in Erio-Ekiti on Friday while inspecting a collapsed bridge along Aramoko-Erio-Efon highway.

He said, “We have just completed the process of budgeting and FERMA got a sum of N29 billion in the 2019 appropriation bill, this is too small to carry out major works on our roads, they are in bad shapes.

The National assembly has made a good case that it would not be enough.

 “The Committees in charge of FERMA in the House of Representatives and the Senate had requested an emergency fund of N12 billion to be released as a matter of urgency for this Yuletide for the sake of our people and country.

 “As a minimum, a sum of N2b for each geopolitical zone to FERMA will go a long way in helping us carry out major repairs on our bad roadways

. “The situations of our federal roads are bad and pathetic and our people don’t deserve this.

The federal government must allow the states to attend to them to rescue our people and save them from pains.”.


The lawmaker urged the Minister of Works, Mr. Babatunde Fashola to ply some federal highways across the country, rather than saying the complaints about the bad shape of roads were a complete exaggeration.

 ‘I don’t know where the Minister got that information from. Our roads are bad and in a sorry state and nothing more to describe it’.

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