SIGA boss urges SOEs to plant trees
The Director-General of the State Interests and Governance Authority (SIGA), Mr Stephen Asamoah-Boateng has urged all state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to support President Akufo-Addo's Green Ghana campaign by planting trees.
Mr Asamoah-Boateng made the call when he led the management and staff of SIGA to plant trees on their compound in Accra.
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He said environmental friendliness forms part of the mandate of SOEs and therefore the nationwide Green Ghana Project should be embraced by all.
The General Manager in charge of Finance and Administration, Mr Andrews Kwesi Frimpong and the General Manager for Operations, Ms Hollistar Duah-Yentumi planted a tree each while the heads of the various divisions in SIGA also planted a tree each.
The Director-General also called on corporate Ghana to add tree planting to their Corporate Social Responsibility programmes.
Background
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo announced the Green Ghana Project in the 2021 State of the Nation Address in March to mobilise Ghanaians for an aggressive nationwide tree planting exercise.
Subsequently, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr Samuel Abu Jinapor, on March 23, this year, launched the greening project as part of activities to mark this year’s International Day of Forests, which fell on March 21.
The ministry plans to institute June 11 each year as a tree-planting day.
As part of the project, more than five million tree seedlings of different species are to be planted and nurtured to maturity as an aggressive measure to preserve the country’s forest cover and the environment and roll back climate change and its debilitating impact.
