The Senate has cleared the air on the controversies surrounding the proposed National Road Funds bill that seeks to introduce the payment of five naira on pump price for the maintenance of federal roads.
The Upper Chamber said it has no intention causing an increase in the pump price of fuel, instead, to find other sources of additional income to fund road infrastructure, such as asking the executive to deduct five naira from each litre of fuel, sold at the current price of N145 per litre.
It made this clarification after withdrawing the National Road Funds bill, for further consultation based on the uproar by Nigerian, who kicked against what they thought, was a proposed fuel pump increase.
