A non governmental organization, Make Kano Green, an initiative of youths has began an ambitious project to shed the capital city with millions trees annually.
The initiative will also be extended to other local government areas throughout the Federation in the course of time.
To this end, the group led by its leader, Ismail Auwal recently visited the Minister of Environment, Balarabe Abbas to discuss the Make Kano Green Campaign, who expressed appreciation for the campaign’s achievements so far.
He pledged to support the campaign and requested that the initiative be extended to cover the entire nation promising to “personally attend the launch in any state “the group chooses to conduct its maiden launch”.
The Minister also vowed to finance the training of state coordinators across colleges of forestry, and provide the enabling platform to showcase the group’s achievements.
MakeKanoGreen has since visited communities in Kano to enlighten them to allow the planting of trees “in front of their houses or businesses” hoping those who can “would promise to take care of them”.
“Our plan”, Auwal said “is to plant trees for those who have the means to care for them, and then conduct a massive planting during the rainy season”, adding that “it is better to plant 10 trees and have one survive than not planting any at all”, he concluded in a Facebook post.