By Bisola Adeyemo
Association of Flower Nursery and landscaping practitioners Nigeria, AFNALPA, has urged the federal government to take the project of tree plantation as a duty call to curb the effects of deforestation across the country and boost environmental development.
President of AFNALPA, Mrs. Mary Omoh, who sought N1billion support from the Federal Government, on Monday to plant 10 million trees across Nigeria, said the poor climate condition experienced in the world, particularly in Nigeria was due to deforestation.
During a walk by the government and key players in the environmental ecosystem, in Abuja, the president of AFNALPA, Mrs. Mary Omoh, said the poor climate condition experienced in the world, particularly in Nigeria was due to deforestation.
She said: “we are out to celebrate life. Because we know that planting a tree gives life, plant a tree, save a life. That is why we are out today to sensitize the public to make them know the importance of having trees around them.
“We can see the desertification, we can see the climate change all over but all we are trying to do this time is to see how to correct it. And to see how this event can help us to come out with our program that we have with the Great Greenwald. We are planting 10 million trees.
“We want them to know what we are planning and how we have gone out to sensitize the people and also want the government to be involved in this event and the funding of this event so that we’ll be able to carry on the 10 million tree campaign that we have been talking about.
“We want the government to support us by funding this campaign, because it is a campaign that will benefit the entire nation is a campaign that will benefit everyone in the nation. So we are inviting all our stakeholders.
“The presidency, the minister FCT we have invited every one of them the Minister of environments already partnering with us in this event.
“We need not be less than 1 billion to fund the 10 million tree planting all over the country. We’re taking it around the country, not just FCT we’re taking the tree planting to: sokoto, kano, Maiduguri, Zamfara, Katsina, Gombe, Abia. We are taking it all through the country.
“Many people don’t know about the climate change. How Attend to educate people? We can all feel it. We are feeling it even here. We are feeling especially the heat around us. That’s to tell us that we are running short of plants.
