THE Kano state governor,Abba Kabir Yusuf,has warned that whoever caught engage in indiscriminate felling of tree, without authoritation,from appropriate quarter’s,would be arrested and prosecuted hence forth
This was just as he threatened that the only way to guide against effect of climate change,is to protected and guide against forest degradation
Governor Yusuf read the riot act during the flag off of 2024 tree planting campaign of planting over 3 million trees, held at Kwankwasiyya City in Kano on Wednesday.
He however disclosed that because of the huge benefit of trees in human lives, the government would not relent in its effort to bring anybody found wanting in felling trees to book in the state.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, because of huge benefit of trees in our lives, I wish to put it in record that Kano State Government will not relent in its effort in bringing to book any resident found wanting in felling of trees without obtaining an authorized permit or clearance from the state ministry of environment and climate change.
According to him,”This is in cognizance of the fact that global
warming is real, the world is changing by adapting different techniques of mitigating
climate change hence the good people of kano
state must key into the change trend,” he said.
Governor Yusuf then appealed to
the private sector, Civil
Society Groups, Voluntary Organizations, Academia, Investors, Self-help Groups and
other Non-Governmental Organizations to
complement Government concerted efforts in
building healthy and safer environment, free of
all sort of diseases.
He equally urged the citizens of the state to give maximum support to the exercise and cooperation it deserves and to imbibe the culture of tree planting for the
collective good of our environment.
“To our environmental health workers, a lot of work is needed to ensure that our efforts yield positive results. I therefore urge you all to be extra committed and dedicated in ensuring that our environment is made clean and devoid of any hazards.
The “2024 Tree Planting Campaign” is meant to checkmate the menace of indiscriminate felling of trees, climate change, soil erosion, land
degradation as well as enhance productivity of
agricultural land and decrease the rate of
desertification.
“It is on record that in the year 2023 and first
quarter of this year. Kano State experienced
extreme heat with temperature rising up to 44
degrees which was partly attributed to
inadequate trees thereby having an adverse
effect on the environment.
“Let me, reiterate here that as individuals or
groups we should inculcate the habit of planting trees in our minds and take responsibility of preserving and management of the trees so that our environment would be healthy,” he said.
While speaking on the occasion, the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi ll directed all district heads, ward heads and village heads to plant trees at their respective houses.
He also reminded the State residents of how they suffered excessive hits that nearly crippled the general activities of the Citizens, saying that was enough lessons for everybody to go ahead and plant at least a tree at his house.
The Emir Sanudi hinted that in connecting the excessive hits that befell the State with global warming, he said that global warming is real and at least Kano people have suffered before the full rainy seasons took full effect.
However,easier, the state Commissioner of Environment, Nasiru Sule Garo, The commissioner for Environment and Climate Change Alhaji Nasir Sule Garo stated that human activities such as bush burning, illegal felling of trees is continuously putting pressure on the already fragile ecosystem thereby threatening food security among other negative Climate impacts.
He stated that tree planting is critically important for several reasons, impacting the environment, human health and overall ecosystem stability.
According to him”Governor Yusuf had approved the provision of 3,000,000 seedling against the last year which is 2,000,000 to be planted at roadside, institutions, avenues and community.”
The Commissioner however disclosed that “This is all in an effort to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change action in our society,”
He added that the planting exercise would be through the Agro–Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscape Project (ACReSAL) which is a project under the State Ministry of Environment and Climate Change.
