FERMA that uses firewood, drum and head pan to construct road in my area. I haven't seen a useless agency like FERMA...

treesun:


Must everything be politics. FERMA has made road worse.

How did FERMA make road worst?

Whatever that will reduce corruption & grow Nigeria is welcome.

Una wan scrap where some aboki dey take chop... Buhari go fight una oh

Mrkumareze:
FERMA that uses firewood, drum and head pan to construct road in my area. I haven't seen a useless agency like FERMA...

LWKM

Good move. They are useless

Overstayed its usefulness

FreeStuffsNG:

Please which of the negatives above is caused by FERMA and those roads you just mentioned are way better than roads like the Ota tollgate or Agbara- Badagry without tolls.

I am not having this convo for the usual negative mindset and lamentations as if everything is the fault of government. Those digging roads without authorization and those burning stuffs on roads etc are part of the problems as much as those who don't suggest probable solutions to our problems yet keep blaming government all the time.

It's your responsibility to suggest ways too and if you can't, you are not helping anyone with the 'lament and go' approach.
FERMA didn't spoil those roads or make the roads worse like you alluded to. I just feel that with the return of tolls, FERMA now becomes underutilized and will serve us better to have agencies with a new mandate that even extends to some rural roads at least in each of the 774 LGAs.

one has to be patient with alot of people here on nairaland. I dont understand th rational behind him or her saying FERMA worsen the roads in Nigeria. You have highlighted the various challenges Ferma is facing as a Government agency, improvements and positive interactions is all we should seek for here.

FreeStuffsNG:

Please which of the negatives above is caused by FERMA and those roads you just mentioned are way better than roads like the Ota tollgate or Agbara- Badagry without tolls.

I am not having this convo for the usual negative mindset and lamentations as if everything is the fault of government. Those digging roads without authorization and those burning stuffs on roads etc are part of the problems as much as those who don't suggest probable solutions to our problems yet keep blaming government all the time.

It's your responsibility to suggest ways too and if you can't, you are not helping anyone with the 'lament and go' approach.
FERMA didn't spoil those roads or make the roads worse like you alluded to. I just feel that with the return of tolls, FERMA now becomes underutilized and will serve us better to have agencies with a new mandate that even extends to some rural roads at least in each of the 774 LGAs.

Those digging roads, especially those laying fibre lines pay governments and government will not fix after collecting.

DubaiLandLord2:
LWKM

this is direct labour intervention. There are various classes of intervention. You did not sound very enlightened with your post.

adabaraabdul:
one has to be patient with alot of people here on nairaland. I dont understand th rational behind him or her saying FERMA worsen the roads in Nigeria. You have highlighted the various challenges Ferma is facing as a Government agency, improvements and positive interactions is all we should seek for here.

Travel round and don't just stay in your localities, in most place, FERMA will dig, do a portion, erect big sign posts and leave their equipment on the road. After months remove the equipment and those big pay loaders would have indented the road creating crevices.
Please I am not a politician and don't do politics. Investigate. Yesterday FERMA started fixing the Iwo, Osun road.

[quote author=Shoodboi post=106306237]For those who find the move suspicious, or are wondering what's happening, what they're saying is that:

The Senate just passed a bill scrapping FERMA (the agency responsible for repairing federal roads) and hoping to replace it with a new agency that will no longer repair roads but instead, offer contracts for the repair of the roads to politicians who will do their repairs on the roads and mount tollgates on them, as Tinubu did at Lekki.

Most of the road contracts are handled by contractors. The difference is just the tolls coming on board. I think I need to study the bill more to understand better.

adabaraabdul:
this is direct labour intervention. There are various classes of intervention. You did not sound very enlightened with your post.

Are you sure you're okay at all?

Or you just wanna be fool!sh this morning?

Person write comment, the comment dey funny to me, you quote me dey write nonsense I no even understand

allthingsgood:


This is an executive bill i.e it was sent by Ministry of Transportation. Its only sponsored by a member

Oh I see. Thank you sir.
I was just puzzled seeing the contract part as part of the proposed mandate of the agency. Why continue to award contract on federal roads being tolled ri bakan, although I get the PPP arrangement though. Regards.

unitysheart:


One of the best roads in the country is the Lekki Epe Highway. And it is state road, not federal.

Lekki - Epe Highway is one of the best roads in Nigeria? I humbly put it to you that you don't know what you are saying sir

SCRAP FERMA LET EACH STATE GOVR BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTRUSTION OF TRAVEL CARRIGE WAYS AND EXPRESSWAYS JUST LIKE AMBODE WAS BUILDING QUALITATIVE STREAMS OF ROADS.

FERMA is one of the most useless agency within the federal govt parastatal. The staffs hardly go to work and in the process receive free salaries. FERMA in benin city can’t even weed the grasses in their office. With their mediocre jobs being done on federal roads across the state. It’s only overdue to scrap the useless damn company.. if you doubt what I say, go to FERMA at sapele road before limit junction (Benin City) and see the rot there

Mrkumareze:
FERMA that uses firewood, drum and head pan to construct road in my area. I haven't seen a useless agency like FERMA...

God bless you! You have seen them in action, something is wrong with us in Nigeria. Roads that are meant to be constructed in precise manner, yet we use crude means. Reasons for many of the accidents!

They wan scrap FERMA abi they just change their name to something else?

Sounds like consolidation progress to me. Great to see the Senate PDP & APC working together for improvement.

The purpose of the bill is to allow private firms to set up toll gates.

panpan:
The purpose of the bill is to allow private firms to set up toll gates.

Toll gates that we cause hold ups, imagine tolls at Ogere and Ibadan again, some of us grew up in that era. Time wasting. There must be alternate roads.

One of the best bills.
Let all assents and implementation follow asap!

There is no road that were maintained or repaired by FERMA that last long before you wink an eye you start to see port holes on the road, some of the roads they repaired were undulating . Can site many examples . They have out used their use fulness or they have been overpolticized

Nice one..kudos to the Nigerian senate..

treesun:


Must everything be politics. FERMA has made road worse.

How did FERMA make roads worse?

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Why Buhari declined assent to Fed Roads Authority, Transport Commission Bills
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By Henry Umoru
ABUJA— PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has written the Senate, declining assent to Federal Roads Authority (Establishment) Bill and National Transport Commissions Bill 2018.

In a letter addressed to the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, and read by him, yesterday, at plenary, President Buhari said he refused to sign the Federal Roads Authority Bill into law because it would make the technical supervisory ministry, Transportation Ministry redundant.

On reasons for his declining assent to Federal Roads Authority (Establishment) Bill 2018, which was passed by the National Assembly, President Buhari in a letter dated December 12, 2018, said: “The establishment of the road sector regulator as a separate and distinctive body in Part 6 of the bill is capable of rendering the entire technical workforce of the supervisory ministry redundant.”




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“The supervisory power of the ministry over the road sector would be taken over by the road sector regulator and will leave the ministry without the power to exercise its supervisory role.

“I am declining assent because, one, safety regulatory provisions enshrined in some sections of the bill, which are technical in nature fall within the purview of central legislations implemented by agencies such as Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA; Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA; National Inland Waterways Authority, NIWA, and therefore, should be expunged from the bill.



“Two, the percentage of the amount to be retained by the agency from royalties collected under section 19 (2)(d) should be reduced from 10 to five per cent.”

Section 12 (9)(2)(d) stipulates that a portion of the proceeds from royalties collected by the authority empowered to collect royalties from transport service providers should not exceed 10 per cent which is collected by service providers and concensionaries.


“Three, section 19 (2)(f) which stipulates charge of three per cent freight tariff stabilisation fee on all imports due and exports out of Nigeria including wet and dry cargoes should be amended and reduced from three per cent to one per cent as this is what is currently contained in the Nigerian Shippers Council, NSC, legislation.”




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Senate: New bill to take away road ownership and repairs from FG
Titobioluwa Okunade Titobioluwa Okunade
2 years ago



The Nigerian Senate is to set take away the ownership and responsibility of road construction, rehabilitation and maintenance from the Federal Government with a newly introduced bill.

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA), Senator Gershom Bassey, disclosed this in an interview in Abuja on Sunday. He added that if passed and signed into law by the President, the responsibility of road construction, rehabilitation and maintenance would be the duty of foreign and local investors.

According to Gershom Bassey, the PDP Senator representing Cross River South Senatorial District, the legislation was a no brainer as it was clear that the Federal Government was experiencing serious challenges carrying out this duty. Over the years, roads all over the country had gone terribly worse due to lack of maintenance by the various Governments, who are in charge.


State governments own most bad roads - Finance Minister says, FMWH Director explains why Nigerian roads may remain bad for long

Meanwhile, Mr Bassey, while speaking on the amendment of the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) Act, said the Act stipulates that the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency to remit 5% of its pump price template to FERMA, Punch reported.


However, the Senate disclosed that since 2007 till date, the accumulated sum, which has not been remitted by the PPPRA, is about N870 billion. He added that the lawmakers were fully convinced the Federal Government was incapable of fixing roads across the country with the funds from the yearly budget.

[READ MORE: Senate to probe PPPRA over unremited N800 billion FERMA fund]

“The PPPRA has not remitted any amount to FERMA or to the state agencies since the law was signed. The last figure we had when we started our investigation was that the unremitted funds had accumulated to N870bn which is due to both FERMA and the states’ road agencies.

“We must find a solution. The new legislation that the Senate is working on now seeks to move road construction and maintenance of the federal budget and let the private sector come in. There is no rocket science here. This idea has been working in other parts of the world and it cannot be different in Nigeria.

“Money will automatically flow into our roads because the private sector will be willing and ready to invest since they know it’s a thriving business and they would recoup their money,” Gershom Bassey said.

The proposed bill is expected to draw a framework for the private sector to come through the creation of the Federal Road Authority (FRA) which would absorb FERMA. The Federal Road Authority would be funded through an infrastructure fund and will own all roads in the country, with its only priority being to deliver good roads all over the country.

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FERMA, the most useless agency in Nigeria. #FermaMustGo.

adabaraabdul:
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It is you who needs to study the bill more to understand it better.

Under FERMA, contractors receive a one-off payment for constructing roads. They don't toll. But under this new arrangement, contractors will no longer receive payment for building roads but will be allowed to toll it instead.

So what point are you trying to make?

unitysheart:


One of the best roads in the country is the Lekki Epe Highway. And it is state road, not federal.

Lekki Epe is still as good as it it today because of the toll collected. At least they typically do not allow small potholes to degenerate before fixing them. If not for the toll, Lekki Epe would have fallen apart by now considering the high volume of traffic on that road.

It's because they toll it, that's why LASG at least tries to respond to it very quickly. that is the responsibility that tolling brings.

I would rather drive on a smooth and perfectly managed Lagos- Benin, or Ibadan Ilorin expressway and pay toll, than not pay toll and drive on a death trap.