The Kano State Government has set aside a sum of N500 million as counterpart funding for the effective control of erosion and waste management across every nook and crannies of the state.
This was just as in less than 17 days, the state government said it evacuated over 1,000 trucks of refuse as part of the Mass Environmental Clean Campaign embarked upon by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje.
Disclosing this on Thursday, the State Commissioner for Environment, Dr Kabiru Ibrahim Getso, said while flagging off planting of one million tree campaign in the state.
He said that the evacuation of the refuse has highly reduced the menace of flooding that disturbs the ancient city of Kano.
He further disclosed that the 2021 Tree Planting Campaign with the theme, “Mitigating Climate Effects and Achieving Beautification in Kano” is meant to checkmate the indiscriminate felling of trees in Kano, which resulted the state to experienced maximum temperature of 44o celsius last year.
Speaking further, the Commissioner, stated that, the State has keyed into National Great Green Wall Project, and already they have provided funds and lands for the establishment of community tree nurseries and plantations in the state.
He said Kano is actively participating in the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project, and already the government has provided N500 Million as well as Office Complex for the State project Management Unit.
He explained that they have promulgated the state policy on environment in order to give policy directions for the environmental sector.
He added that, “we have drafted the state pollution control Bill as well as State Forestry Bill to enforce compliance to environmental laws, and enforce the law we have recruited 1,000 Sanitation Vanguards to police our environment.”
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