The Tamale Metropolitan Assembly (TAMA) is to institute an environmental award to honour institutions, groups and individuals who engage in best environmental practices in the metropolis.
The Tamale Metropolitan Chief Executive, Alhaji Haruna Friday, announced this in Tamale when he distributed about 5,000 grafted mango seedlings to some basic and second cycle schools in the area.
The seedlings were donated to the assembly by “Kick Malaria Out”, an Accra-based non-governmental organisation, as part of its Green Ghana project to avoid complete depletion of the nation’s forests.
The project is also aimed at encouraging people to plant tress in their various communities to help combat global warming.
The MCE expressed concern over the indiscriminate manner trees were being felled in the metropolis and advised the people to desist from such practices, since the practice affected their own survival.
He also entreated them to put an immediate stop to bush burning, since it contributed significantly to the loss of soil fertility resulting in food insecurity.
Alhaji Friday commended the NGO for its initiative and urged other institutions, organisations, individuals and groups to also support the programme and adopt best environmental practices.
The Northern Regional Co-ordinator of the organisation, Mr Abass Salifu, explained that the donation of the seedlings was part of their efforts to “save our forests from total depletion”.
In furtherance of this, he said his outfit was also collaborating with the assembly to plant about one million trees in the metropolis this year.
He also advised the people to adhere strictly to best environmental practices and expressed appreciation to the assembly for its intention to establish an environmental award, which he hoped would encourage the people to plant more trees.
According to him, the project would be extended to the Upper East and West regions and appealed to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to intensify its campaigns against bush burning and tree felling.
He also appealed to various district assemblies to enforce their respective by-laws to protect the environment.
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