{"id":92645,"date":"2022-03-09T13:43:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T12:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=92645"},"modified":"2022-03-09T13:43:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T12:43:18","slug":"monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Monumental Fraudulent: Reps To Probe FERMA Over Agency&#8217;s Activities Since 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The House of Representatives has unveiled plans to investigate allegations bothering on monumental fraudulent and illegal activities being perpetrated by officials of Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Concerns were raised following reported cases of corrupt practices high handedness by the leadership of the agency, over inflation of contracts, award of non-existent contracts, massive splitting of jobs and flagrant disregard for procurement laws in the award of contracts and in most cases refuse to implement the budget in full thereby doing selective implementation of the budget.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The resolution was passed sequel to the adoption of a motion sponsored by the Minority Leader, Hon Ndudi Elumelu, who decried the poor performance of the Agency saddled with the responsibility of ensuring efficient and effective monitoring as well as the maintenance of all federal roads in Nigeria with an objective of keeping all the roads in good and safe condition at all time.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In his lead debate, Hon Elumelu who solicited for the House intervention in line with Section 88 and 89 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), observed that the Agency is under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The House is aware that while billions of naira is voted to FERMA yearly for purposes of road maintenance, the federal roads across the country are nothing to write home about as most of them have become death traps, killing hundreds of Nigerians yearly as a result of poor conditions of our roads<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8221; The House is further aware that FERMA which was set up to ameliorate the sufferings of Nigeria road users is alleged to be enmeshed in serious corrupt practices by the management.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8221; The House is disturbed that the corrupt practices include high handedness by the leadership of the agency, over inflation of contracts, award of non-existent contracts, massive splitting of jobs and flagrant disregard for procurement laws in the award of contracts and in most cases refuse to implement the budget in full thereby doing selective implementation of the budget.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe House is further disturbed that there are allegations of intentional delays in awarding contracts for road repairs and construction several months after bidding had been completed and successful bidders have emerged thereby compounding problems for Nigeria road users and sabotaging the effort of the government.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The House is worried that most of these contracts are alleged to have been cornered by the management for themselves and their cronies who abandon site after collecting a reasonable percentage of advance payment of contract sum.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The House is further worried that if these spates of unbridled pilfery by top government officials are allowed to fester and unchecked it will not only drain the national purse but discredit the perceived fight against corruption by this government in the eyes of the international community, hence the need for this motion,\u201d Hon Elumelu noted.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-4665415337900943481yMail_cursorElementTracker_1646829346576\">To this end, the House resolved to set up an Ad-hoc Committee to investigate the activities of FERMA from 2019 till date and report back within six weeks for further legislative action.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives has unveiled plans to investigate allegations bothering on monumental fraudulent and illegal activities being perpetrated by officials of Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA). Concerns were raised&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u00a0Monumental Fraudulent: Reps To Probe FERMA Over Agency&#039;s Activities Since 2009 - Pointblank News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u00a0Monumental Fraudulent: Reps To Probe FERMA Over Agency&#039;s Activities Since 2009 - Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The House of Representatives has unveiled plans to investigate allegations bothering on monumental fraudulent and illegal activities being perpetrated by officials of Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA). Concerns were raised&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-03-09T12:43:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/House-of-Reps3.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"420\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"headline\":\"\u00a0Monumental Fraudulent: Reps To Probe FERMA Over Agency&#8217;s Activities Since 2009\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-03-09T12:43:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/\"},\"wordCount\":510,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/House-of-Reps3.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/\",\"name\":\"\u00a0Monumental Fraudulent: Reps To Probe FERMA Over Agency's Activities Since 2009 - Pointblank News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/House-of-Reps3.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-03-09T12:43:18+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/House-of-Reps3.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/House-of-Reps3.jpg\",\"width\":750,\"height\":420},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"\u00a0Monumental Fraudulent: Reps To Probe FERMA Over Agency&#8217;s Activities Since 2009\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\",\"name\":\"Pointblank News\",\"description\":\"Just the news\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\",\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Our Reporter\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\u00a0Monumental Fraudulent: Reps To Probe FERMA Over Agency's Activities Since 2009 - Pointblank News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"\u00a0Monumental Fraudulent: Reps To Probe FERMA Over Agency's Activities Since 2009 - Pointblank News","og_description":"The House of Representatives has unveiled plans to investigate allegations bothering on monumental fraudulent and illegal activities being perpetrated by officials of Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA). Concerns were raised&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/","og_site_name":"Pointblank News","article_published_time":"2022-03-09T12:43:18+00:00","og_image":[{"width":750,"height":420,"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/House-of-Reps3.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Our Reporter","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Our Reporter","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/"},"author":{"name":"Our Reporter","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"headline":"\u00a0Monumental Fraudulent: Reps To Probe FERMA Over Agency&#8217;s Activities Since 2009","datePublished":"2022-03-09T12:43:18+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/"},"wordCount":510,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/House-of-Reps3.jpg","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/","name":"\u00a0Monumental Fraudulent: Reps To Probe FERMA Over Agency's Activities Since 2009 - Pointblank News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/House-of-Reps3.jpg","datePublished":"2022-03-09T12:43:18+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/House-of-Reps3.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/House-of-Reps3.jpg","width":750,"height":420},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/monumental-fraudulent-reps-to-probe-ferma-over-agencys-activities-since-2009\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"\u00a0Monumental Fraudulent: Reps To Probe FERMA Over Agency&#8217;s Activities Since 2009"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/","name":"Pointblank News","description":"Just the news","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c","name":"Our Reporter","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Our Reporter"},"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}