By Sanni Onogu, Abuja
Senate President Ahmad Lawan has said the Senate will investigate the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) over alleged non-remittance of N800 billion to the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) for the maintenance of roads across the country.
This emanated from his concluding remarks on a Bill for an Act to Repeal the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency Act, 2002, and to Establish the Federal Roads Authority Bill, 2019.
The Senate President recalled that previous efforts by Nigeria to concession government enterprises failed as a result of systemic corruption.
He called for Public–Private Partnership (PPP) in the provision of roads across the country to help the government meet its responsibility of providing good roads.
Read Also: Move to pass vote of confidence in Lawan suffers setback in Senate
“Corruption is also responsible for some of the challenges we face in our road sector.
“We recall that the privatisation of various enterprises was made right from 1986 till date, and in most cases the privatisation or concessioning processes were flawed and, of course, we suffer as a country.
“So, we just have to be very careful. We insist we go on the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) partnership, but we have to ensure that everything is done within the law, as required, so that no one takes advantage of his position in government to short-change the entire people of the country.”
Leave a Reply