Given the critical role the agency plays in maintaining and repairing roads across the country, as well as the vast scale of the task it is responsible for nationwide, the current budgetary allocation to the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency is grossly insufficient
The Minister of State for Works, Mohammad Goronyo, who said this, said the agency needs over seven hundred billion naira yearly to maintain federal roads nationwide.
Goronyo who is the supervising minister of the agency, made this opening presentation at the budget defence before the joint session of the Senate and House Committees on FERMA.
A statement by the FERMA Director of Information and Public Relations, Maryam Sanusi, said the agency defended its budget proposal of sixty-four-point-eight-eight billion naira for the twenty twenty-five fiscal year.
It stated that the amount is lower than the SEVENTY-SEVEN billion naira proposed for the year twenty twenty-four.
FERMA, said the budget prioritises major trunk A roads within the six geopolitical zones, aligning with President Tinubu’s development and economic recovery objectives of the Renewed Hope Agenda.