Senate seeks more funding for FERMA to rehabilitate critical roads

…Urges prosecution of killers of two Plateau farmers

By Henry Umoru

ABUJA — The Senate has called on the Federal Government to provide adequate funding for the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) to accelerate the rehabilitation of critical roads across the country.

The upper chamber also recommended the immediate emergency rehabilitation of the failed sections of the Onyagede-Ogobia Road off the Otukpo-Oweto Highway in Ohimini Local Government Area of Benue State, pending full reconstruction estimated at N15.06 billion.

It further called for improved drainage systems, erosion control measures and enhanced security along the road corridor.