The House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee investigating the implementation and remittance of the five per cent user charge on the pump price of petroleum products for road maintenance has inaugurated two stakeholders’ Committees to address issues surrounding the collection and disbursement of the charges.
The user charge, contained in the Act establishing the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, provides that forty per cent of the proceeds will accrue to FERMA while sixty per cent is to be utilised by the state road maintenance agencies.
The Chairman of the Ad-hoc Committee, Honourable Francis Waive disclosed that five percent user charge had over the years not been operationalised.
