The Chairman Senate Committee on
Bassey who is the representative of
"We oversight FERMA... and in order to maintain our roads in
According to Bassey, the N82 billion proposed for FERMA in the 2022 budget was abysmally low when considered from the about N400 billion required for maintenance of federal roads.
Speaking on the budget proposal which is before the
The senator condemned the deplorable state of federal roads in the country owing to poor funding saying, "from all indications one can see that FERMA has inadequate funding and there is need for government to find ways to fund FERMA."
Commenting on the proposed Federal Road Authority Act which he noted would tremendously transform federal roads, Bassey said: "If His Excellency, the President, can assent to that bill, it will go a long way in solving a lot of the road problems we are having in this country".
Bassey said the senate had recently urged the federal government to declare a state of emergency on federal roads, and also urged the
He disclosed that from 2016-2020, the actual funds released to FERMA by the federal government for road rehabilitation and maintenance was just about 17 per cent of the required sum, and that poor funding and neglect of Nigerian roads have led to the country's abysmal state of federal roads.
The Senator who is also the
Commenting on
Bassey said in 2019, he made a similar call through a motion for increased funding for maintenance and rehabilitation of the country's federal highways.
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