The Senate on Wednesday passed the Federal Road Bill which seeks to repeal the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency Act, Federal Highways Act, and the Control of Advertisement on Federal Highways Act.

The proposed law is aimed at facilitating the establishment of an agency to govern and manage the nation’s federal roads network.

When established, the agency is expected to facilitate private sector participation in the development, financing, maintenance, management, and improvement of roads in Nigeria.

It would also regulate contracts for road concession and other forms of public private partnership as well as set guidelines for the working of PPP contracts.

The bill was sponsored by the Deputy Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Toby Okechukwu (PDP, Enugu) and Ossai Nicholas (PDP, Delta).

It was sponsored in the upper chamber by the Senate Leader, Yahaya Abubakar (APC, Kebbi) for concurrence and

passage in line with legislative traditions.


https://punchng.com/senate-passes-bill-to-scrap-ferma/

I think FERMA has overused its stay but I doubt if the executive will agree with this law if the proposed agency takes over the job of contract awards which falls under the authority of FEC.

I remember it was the agency of PDP under President Obasanjo that Pa Obj used to fight Lagos State Government then when Chief Ogunlewe was Honourable Minister of Works . Today, same Chief Ogunlewe is solidly in the camp of same Asiwaju Tinubu he was being used to fight then.
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This is a welcome development.

FreeStuffsNG:
I think Ferma has overused its stay. I remember it was the agency PDP under President Obasanjo used to fight Lagos State Government then when Chief Ogunlewe was Honourable Minister of Works . Today, same Chief Ogunlewe is solidly in the camp of same Asiwaju Tinubu he waa being used to fight then.

Must everything be politics. FERMA has made road worse.

Good but

This if implemented will be my birthday gift(though I cancel all forms of celebration or even recognize the date)

treesun:


Must everything be politics. FERMA has made road worse.

FERMA didn't make road worse sir. It is wear and tear from use, environmental degradation and poor maintenance in the face of poor funding that make road worse. The politics part is relevant because of the high stake in such high budget projects and it was same politics that made FG under HE Obj to demolish all the toll collection and weighing stations in one fell swoop then and that catapulted FERMA into politics.
I grew up and in my adult life seeing those tolls and the sections where trucks and trailers are weighed to ascertain if they have exceeded the maximum weight for safety reasons and maintenance of the road. It was not FERMA that scrapped the tolls and weighing stations.
Now that the tolls are coming back, whoever collects the tolls and FG can have a PPP contract that ensures such business arrangement maintains the road while the new agency should oversee issues such as compliance with standards and handle customer(road users) complaints . We can have back an agency like DFFRI to attend to the last mile rural roads since federal roads would have been covered.
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FreeStuffsNG:
FERMA didn't make road worse sir. It is wear and tear from use, environmental degradation and poor maintenance in the face of poor funding that make road worse. The politics part is relevant because of the high stake in such high budget projects and it was same politics that made FG under HE Obj to demolish all the toll collection and weighing stations in one fell swoop then and that catapulted FERMA into politics.
I grew up seeing those tolls and the sections where trucks and trailers are weighed to ascertain if they have exceeded the maximum weight for safety reasons and maintenance of the road. It was not FERMA that scrapped the tolls and weighing stations.
Now that the tolls are coming back, whoever collects the tolls and FG can have a PPP contract that ensures such business arrangement maintains the road while the new agency should oversee issues such as compliance with standards and handle customer(road users) complaints . We can have back an agency like DFFRI to attend to the last mile rural roads since federal roads would have been covered .

Lekki- Epe that they have been collecting tolls and doing PP, how good are the roads, even Law School area is filled with potholes. MM Airport, Ikeja that have toll and paid parking lots, how good are the road from Airforce base.
For your info, for every litre of fuel, we are paying for road maintenance. So where are the humongous revenue?

Ok

Oboiiooo

They aren't doing anything

Long overdue..

Why scrap an agency, just to create another agency that will do same job as the scrapped one? Abi na me no understand?

They should scrap ITF too. They're only eating money for doing nothing

Hmmm

Not like they were useful anyway

I don't know what FERMA is but I know anything this useless rubber stamp zombies sign is for the doom of poor and middle class Nigerians

When are you scrapping banditry and herdsmen?

FreeStuffsNG:
I think FERMA has overused its stay but I doubt if the executive will agree with this law if the proposed agency takes over the job of contract awards which falls under the authority of FEC.

I remember it was the agency PDP under President Obasanjo used to fight Lagos State Government then when Chief Ogunlewe was Honourable Minister of Works . Today, same Chief Ogunlewe is solidly in the camp of same Asiwaju Tinubu he waa being used to fight then.

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

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.

treesun:


Lekki- Epe that they have been collecting tolls and doing PP, how good are the roads, even Law School area is filled with potholes. MM Airport, Ikeja that have toll and paid parking lots, how good are the road from Airforce base.
For your info, for every litre of fuel, we are paying for road maintenance. So where are the humongous revenue?

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

treesun:


Lekki- Epe that they have been collecting tolls and doing PP, how good are the roads, even Law School area is filled with potholes. MM Airport, Ikeja that have toll and paid parking lots, how good are the road from Airforce base.
For your info, for every litre of fuel, we are paying for road maintenance. So where are the humongous revenue?

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.

All signs of stupidity, you create an agency today tomorrow you ban it, shows these ppl don't knw what they are doing.

Old boy

A welcome development if possible but masses should brace up to pay more for the road uses. This one govt is talking of private partnership, meaning more tollgates is coming.

treesun:


Lekki- Epe that they have been collecting tolls and doing PP, how good are the roads, even Law School area is filled with potholes. MM Airport, Ikeja that have toll and paid parking lots, how good are the road from Airforce base.
For your info, for every litre of fuel, we are paying for road maintenance. So where are the humongous revenue?

Your argument and his own still boils down to accountability. Road maintenance charge in fuel price and tollgate, which one is better?