Kano-ACReSAL Celebrates 2024 World Environment Day with Site Visit

By Nura Ahmad

The State Commissioner of Environment who is also the Chairman State Steering Committee of Kano-ACReSAL Rt. Honorable Nasiru Sule Garo led a team comprising top officials of the ministry, State Project Management Unit (SPMU) staff and journalist to Gumawa forest in Gabasawa LGA. 

The visit was embarked upon today, shortly after holding a conference with the press at the Conference Hall of the State Ministry of Environment and Climate Change.

When addressing journalist, the commissioner lauded the tremendous achievements of the  Government under the able leadership of His Excellency the Executive Governor Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf in the area of environmental promotion.

"Let me reiterate that Kano State Government under the startling leadership of His Excellency Alh. Abba Kabir Yusuf is given priority attention to the Environment Sector especially in the areas of biodiversity conservation, restoration of degraded lands, addressing climate change issues, fight against the menace of desertification and desert encroachment, pollution control, environmental sanitation, prevention of flooding, erosion prevention and control, among many others". 

The commissioner further applauded Kano State government support and commitment to ACReSAL project for the benefit of the citizenry."

The commissioner further reflect on the numerous impactful projects implemented by Kano-ACReSAL, such as the provision of the state-of-the -art laboratory equipment and apparatus for the soil and water laboratory in the Department of Geography  Northwest university Kano; Institutional support to the Ministry of Environment for 2023 annual drainage  clearance to avert flooding to mention but few. ACReSAL program itself is a large-scale effort, encompassing multiple States in Northern Nigeria.

"ACReSAL also made a deliberate effort to leverage on technical expertise of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) through mutual agreement to restore 350,000 hectares of degraded  land in an effort to address food in security. Kano State has come along way in the area of land  restoration as hundreds of hectares have been prepared for  plantings across the project identified location in Kano state, the commissioner added.

Alhaji Nasiru Sule Garo the described the visit  to the site today as part of activities to set to carry out in commemoration of the 2024 World Environment Day. Reckoning that Kan-ACReSAL project would undertake other turnkey project in the area of environmental restoration, water supply, irrigation, institutional support and many more.
 
At the site, the State Project Coordinator Dr. Dahir Muhammad Hashim conducted the team, led by the commissioner to tour the prepared land for the FAO intervention in Gumawa forest Gabasawa LGA.

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