Govt Establishes Great Green Wall Agency

The Federal Government has approved the establishment of the Interim Office of the National Agency for the Great Green Wall (GGW).

Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo, who disclosed this at the State House in Abuja yesterday during the fifth meeting of the National Council on the Great Green Wall, said the GGW project was aimed impacting positively on the lives of Nigerians.

He advocated a strategic national plan and approach that should include local community participation to ensure the success of the programme.

The vice president said more youths should be employed to guard the forests so that the nation's investments would be fully protected.

Sambo set up a committee, chaired by the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Environment, to draw up a detailed operational manual and action plan that would be used to drive the project to a viable conclusion.

Members of the committee are the permanent secretaries of the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, Ecological Funds Office and Ministries of Education, Environment and Finance.

Earlier, Environment Minister Lawrencia Laraba Mallam said 52,002 people had been employed for the various activities of the GGW project.

By Isiaka Wakili

 

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Govt Establishes Great Green Wall Agency