As part of its resolve to protect the environment, Rotary Club of Bauchi Central over the weekend embarked on planting 110 forest species of trees in Dass Local Government Area of Bauchi state.
Speaking during the flagging off of the planting exercise, President of Rotary Club of Bauchi Central, Mr Morris Choji, said that the gesture was to prevent the environment from desertification.
According to him, the Club decided to embark on the project in order to see how it could contribute to saving the environment by planting the trees to serve as windbreakers and to avoid erosion.
Morris Choji, who encouraged the people of Dass to also plant more trees, promised that the Club would plant more if the ones planted are well taken care of.
According to him, “Today, we are witnessing a tree planting project that we as Rotarians do from time to time to see how we can save the environment.”
He stressed that, “As Rotary Club, we have Seven areas of focus such as Polio eradication, Water and Sanitation, Maternal and Child health, among others and protecting the environment is one of them.”
The President added that, “We are planting 110 forest species of trees in the Dass Local Government Area of the state and I would like to call on the benefiting community to take very good care of the trees.”
“From time to time, we will be coming here to see how far they are faring and we have gotten assurance from the local government that they will be taken care of and we appreciate the energy,” he said.
In her reaction towards the gesture, Mrs Victoria Joshua, Head of Administration, Dass LGA, said that the project is very important to the people of Dass and to humanity at large.
Victoria Joshua added that, “We are witnessing great deforestation globally, there is great climate change and what Rotary club is doing right now by planting these trees is a way to serve humanity and to curb the deforestation taking place in our locality and globally.”
According to her, “We appreciate the club for their efforts to serve humanity and we call on them to bring not only this plantation but more benefiting programmes into Dass LGA.”
She assured that the local government would mobilise forestry staff under the Agric section in the LGA to take very good care of the planted trees so as to achieve the purpose they were planted.
