As part of the 2023 edition of the Green Ghana Day program, the entire country targeted to plant ten million (10M) seedlings to augment the already existed ones.
In Fanteakwa South District Assembly in the Eastern Region, the Osinohene, Osaberima Otu Darko, the Member of Parliament for the constituency, Kofi Okyere Agyekum, Students, DCE, Ernest Ofosu and other heads from the various department of the Assembly came together to plant 30,000 seedlings.
As such, the entire Eastern Region is targeting of planting 600,000 seedlings.
Speaking to Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI at the program, Kofi Okyere Agyekum said, it would be wrong to say the tree planting must be stopped because, the illegal mining activities is still going on.
“Those illegal miners are attacking the new areas not the old places, the Forestry Commission have laws that protect trees and before someone would cut down the trees from his or her own land that person have to go for a permit from the Forestry C’ssion before cutting down the tree(s)”, he noted.
Okyere Agyekum adds, the Forestry Commission must enforce their laws to arrest and prosecute those illegal miners who are destroying the water bodies, lands and the forest to serve a deterrent to others.
He however noted that for people to call for an end of the tree planting due to the activities of illegal mining won’t help as a country, because without trees human beings can’t live.
Addressing the short ceremony held at the forecourt of the Fanteakwa South District Assembly, the DCE for the District, Ernest Ofosu said, there are so many benefit human-being get from the tree; hence the tree planting must be a shared responsibility.
Furthermore, the Osinohene, Osaberima Otu Darko who chaired the program said, its very unfortunate that the illegal miners are destroying the forest and the lands but looking at it from the different angle, most of this galamseyers are graduates who don’t have any job doing.
He stated that, man must eat too, and if they complete school and have nothing doing they have no option than to join the illegal miners for survival.
‘So to reduce the menace, there must be a social interventions that would help the youth to get job doing after completing school,’ he added.
In conclusion, the Begoro Assistant District Manager for the Forestry C’ssion, Robert Adomako Asare added that, out of the targeted 30,000 seedlings Fanteakwa South is targeted for the tree planting, they have planted about 10,000 alongside roads, schools, communities etc and have planted about 20,000 in the forest as well and hoping to see most of them survive like the previous ones.
By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.
Source// Obohnewsonline.com.
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