FG Plans To Involve 1,200 Youths in Its Tree Planting Program Nationwide
FG Plans To Involve 1,200 Youths in Its Tree Planting Program Nationwide

FG Plans To Involve 1,200 Youths in Its Tree Planting Program Nationwide

FG Plans To Involve 1,200 Youths in Its Tree Planting Program Nationwide

Federal Government intends to engage 1,200 youths for its Tree Planting Program in 24 local government areas, across the country.

Interior Minister of state, Dr. Kunle Salako, announcing the program, while planting the fiftieth tree during the program at the permaculture gardens at Ajoda High School in Ayetoro.

The minister told newsmen that the program will take off next month, and youths to be engaged would get a monthly stipend to nurture the tree and returned them to the host communities.

Salako explained that the program targets 10 hectare of land, which would include fruit trees and to begarded as community forest.

Fielding questions on the potential for job creation that the tree planting programme offers, Salako said: At every local government, we are going to be covering about 10 hectares of land as community forests. When we plant those trees, they are going to be populated by fruit trees and they are going to be owned by the communities.

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For a year, the Federal Government is going to support the nurturing of those trees. We will engage youths; we are going to be paying them some stipends to make sure they take care of the trees and at the end of the year, we will hand over the trees to the community to continue to maintain them.

Salako also revealed that the tree-planting visit to the Permacultural Garden at Ajoda High School, Aiyetoro forms part of his determination to meet the New Year resolution to plant 100 trees in 2024 as his contribution to the Greener Nigeria campaign.

The garden was created by the Asalamualekum Foundation (AAF), a non-governmental organisation established in 2011 by the minister in memory of his late father, Alhaji Yunus Omotosho Salako, to whom he dedicated the 50th tree he planted.

Salako added that the exercise was an effort aimed at greening the school with over 100 trees, adding that he intends to plant the remaining 50 trees in the North-East, North-West and South-East regions before the year runs out having planted trees in the South-South, North-Central, and now South-West.

Speaking at the event, the Vice Principal of Ajoda High School, Ayetoro, Mr Claudius Akinyemi, thanked the minister for considering the school for the scheme and assured that the students would be encouraged to toe the path of tree planting once they returned from the Eid-el-Kabir break.

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