By Bisola Adeyemo
The deputy governor of Borno State, Alhaji Umar Kadafur, yesterday during the monthly sanitation reiterated that the state government has a plan to encourage afforestation by planting one million trees this year.
The deputy governor disclosed this in Maiduguri while inaugurating the 2021 tree planting season to mark the World Environment Day.
Kadafur said already, 500,000 seedlings had been produced while the remaining was being raised in nurseries across the state.
He said the monthly environmental sanitation had been restored and many youths were recruited as sanitation vanguards to ensure clean environment, as the committee had been constituted to address the problems of deforestation, desertification, erosion and flooding.
Also, the attorney general and commissioner for justice, Mr Kaka Shehu, who oversees the ministry of environment said “we will continue to do everything to encourage afforestation and discourage deforestation,” Shehu said.
He lauded the feat recorded during the monthly sanitation in Maiduguri and urged residents to sustain the tempo, leadership news reports.
Highlight of the occasion was the planting of 2000 tree seedlings in the newly established Borno State University.