Commissioner of Police in Kogi state, Wilson
Inalegwu, is advising kidnappers intending to use Kogi state forests for their
activities to perish the thought.
Inalegwu disclosed this at joint
news conference with the State Commissioner for Environment and Natural
Resources, Rosemary Osikoya, on the sidelines of this year’s
International Day of Forests in Lokoja.
He commended the Kogi State government
over the recruitment of forest guards, and described it as a critical step that
would control the forest reserves, which hitherto had been a safe haven for
kidnappers and other criminals.
The Commissioner for Environment and
Natural Resources, Rosemary Osikoya,
on her part, told newsmen that the government of Yahaya Bello was committed to effective utilization
of forestry resources for the benefit of all.
She said that efforts to diversify
the economy should focus on afforestation much more than subsistence farming,
noting that timber was the third highest foreign exchange earner for Nigeria.
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