Ogun State Government has said it would continue to deploy necessary resources towards promoting green infrastructure due to the ecological benefit to humanity.
The state Commissioner for Forestry, Engineer Taiwo Oludotun, made this known at the flag-off of the first phase of green infrastructure.
The commissioner, represented by the Director of Forestry, Survey, Demarcation Inventory and Extension, Mr Wale Sonubi, noted that aside from beautifying the environment, it also ameliorates incidences of erosion, windstorms, earthquakes and other natural disasters.
He pointed out that the state government placed a high premium on tree planting in every available space in the urban and rural, commending the Governor for providing necessary support to the agency, which served as a veritable catalyst for the Ministry to achieve its set goals for planting more than five million trees in the last five years.
‘’When you plant trees, you are saving yourself from natural disasters which ordinarily could have occurred and have adverse effects on you and the environment such as windstorm, erosion, earthquake and other natural calamity,’’ he said.
In his remark, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, AN-NUR Consulting Limited, Mr. Nurudeen Adekunle said his company decided to partner with the state government in tree planting due to the state’s giant strides in the past.
He promised that the exercise would be replicated across the major cities in the three Senatorial Districts of the state.
