By ANAYO OKOLI

ABA — FEDERAL Roads Maintenance Agency, FERMA, has tasked Nigerians to challenge their governments at the state and local government levels on what they do with their share of SURE-P funds.

The agency  reminded Nigerians that SURE-P money was shared among the three tiers of government.

Air Commodore Idongesiet Nkanga (rtd), the South South representative on the FERMA board, who gave the charge in Aba, Abia State, last Tuesday,  said it was wrong for Nigerians not only to focus only on the Federal Government, noting that other tiers of government got substantial part of the fund.

Nkanga, who represented the chairman of FERMA board, Chief Amuchi, said that FERMA’s SURE-P public work programme had employed 6,294 youths across the country and expressed hope that before the end of the year, it would engage 10,000 youths on N18,000 monthly stipend.

He called on the states and local governments to deploy their own share of the funds to engage the youths, as part of President Goodluck Jonathan’s fight against youth unemployment.

Nkanga urged the people to always ask their leaders at the state and local government levels what they had done with their own share of the fund.