Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe state has warned that any district, ward, or village head found wanting for failure to protect the environment will be dealt decisively.
He stated this at the Yobe State security council meeting which brought together heads of security agencies in the state, 17 local government chairmen, traditional rulers, among others.
Buni identified poverty as a key driver pushing people to embark on indiscriminate felling of trees in the State.
He announced that a high-powered monitoring committee under the chairmanship of the State Deputy Governor has been constituted to ensure compliance.
The governor who was represented by his deputy said this must be checkmated to secure the future of the State.
“Yobe state like most states in Northern Nigeria is basically a rural and agricultural economy with over 70% of its population participating in agriculture that is recurrently characterized with low yield.
“Apart from natural factors such as desertification, desert encroachment and low level of rainfall, agricultural production is also negatively affected by man-made factors, such as indiscriminate felling of trees and bush burning.
“Successive and present administrations in the State made concerted efforts with the aim of creating attitudinal change on life pattern through enlightenment on the dangers of felling of trees, bush burning and the need for reforestation as provided in the law, but all yielded unimpressive results.
“Due to our grievous concern about the condition of the environment and the need to take urgent measures to protect it, henceforth government would not condone nonchalant attitude of our traditional rulers at the grassroots with regards to indiscriminate felling of trees, bush burning as well as undue allocation of farmlands”, Buni warned.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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