Campaign
By Ibrahim Kado
Yola, June 7, 2024 (NAN) Adamawa Activities for Climate Justice, an NGO has taken tree planting campaign to secondary school students in commemoration of 2024 World Environmental Day.
Speaking at the commemoration on Friday in Yola, the team leader, Amina Tukur, said the celebration is in collaboration with African Activists for Climate Justice and Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation (GIFSEP).
She advised the students to embrace three planting to save the environment from the challenges of climate change.
She called on them to understand that environment is a platform for life including plants and animals.
Tukur also urged the students to be patient in taking care of the trees to grow up to maturity.
Alh. Aliyu Jada, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment represented by Musa Usman, said issues of climate change is the responsibility of everyone.
According to him, government is doing everything possible to protect the environment by signing executive order to stop felling of trees for charcoal production.
“It is our own responsibility to also complement government efforts by planting more trees and stopping all negative activities against the environment,’’ he said.
He further commended the organisers for the campaign.
Ahmed Dada, the Executive Director, Dada Education Foundation said that climate change was negatively impacting life and encouraged the students to plant more trees.
He said the state government had planted trees worth millions of naira over the years but they could not survive due to poor management, hence the need for the students to plant trees and nature them to maturity.
Mohammed Musa, the Principal, General Murtala Mohammed Collage (GMMC) Yola, who spoke on behalf of selected schools thanked the organisers and gave assurance that they would take care of the seedlings up to maturity.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the selected schools were GMMC, Government Secondary School Bekaji, Karewa, Capital School, and Government Girls Secondary School Yola (NAN) (www.nannews.ng)
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Edited by Ifeyinwa Okonkwo/ Isaac Ukpoju
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