3-Sub Committees for 5 Percent Users Charge Road Maintenance for Inauguration July 8th, 2025

By Musa Isah 

The 3-Sub Committees set up by Ad-hoc Committee to investigate the implementation and remittance of 5 percent users charge for Road Maintenance under FERMA Amendment Acts 2007, are to be inaugurated on Tuesday, July 8th, 2025.

The Chairman of the Committee, Hon. Francis Waive, announced this at the Committee’s meeting, National Assembly Complex, Abuja. 

He said the Sub Committees which are on Pre-Tax Act, Post Tax Act and Provision for Hazard Covering on our Roads, are to assist the Committee find solution to the problem of bad roads in the country.

Hon. Waive posited that the Committee was set up by the House of Representatives to look into problem of bad roads in the country, despite the 5 percent users charge for road maintenance, would ensure laws enacted by the National Assembly are implemented to achieve the desired result.

According to him, one of the focus of the 10th National Assembly, the House of Representatives is to ensure that laws are not only enacted but implemented to bring about good governance and dividends of democracy, which is why the Ad-hoc Committee was set up to solve problem of bad road in the country.

He further averred that the Committee is not trying to increase fuel price, but to proffer solution to road problems, which have claimed several lives and inimical to the growth of the economy.

The Sub Committees to be inaugurated will assist the Committee assignment of probing the 5 percent implementation and remittance of the fund which ought to be used to better our roads.

The chairman remarked, “let us build our country by ensuring that bad roads cease to continue.

” The Sub Committee members are to be drawn from the organisations and agencies, which form the stakeholders such as the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA), Independent Petroleum Marketers (IPMAN), the PPRA among others.

The agencies and Organisations are to present 3 nominees to form the Sub-Committee to be inaugurated.