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Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Mrs. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has called on Ghanaians to aim at planting trees, especially hard woods that could be used for timber in the next ten to twenty years, and to also replace the country’s depleted forest.
This, she said, should be done with the expectation that it would improve the vegetation of forest cover that has over 80% destroyed.
Mrs. Owusu-Ekuful said, “In our small way we are helping to plant some of the five million trees and we believe that even the work we do is dependent on it because our lives depend on the lives of the vegetation around us and as the saying goes, “When the last tree dies, the last man dies.”
Mrs. Owusu-Ekuful made this appeal when she led her staff at the Communications and Digitalisation ministry to join Ghanaians to plant five million trees nationwide as part of the Green Ghana project that took place across the country on Friday, June 11, 2021.
In her speech, the two term Communications Minister, and also Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South stated, “In our small way we are helping to plant some of the five million trees and we believe that even the work we do is dependent on it because our lives depend on the lives of the vegetation around us as the saying goes when the last tree dies, the last man dies.”
She noted that the survival of human beings are threatened without trees, but vast land of forests have been destroyed through human activities, and pledged that her Ministry is ready to support the Green Ghana project.
Mrs. Owusu-Ekuful also charged managers of Kofi Annan Information Technology Centre (KAITC) to develop a system through a digital technology that could be used to monitor the growth and health of the trees planted.
“I think it is doable because they just assured me they have already started working on it, which we can log in to see how the trees are doing. It is incumbent on all of us to nurture the trees that we planted.”
“The plants will do well no matter where they are planted and out of that we can continue to enjoy the benefits from it.”
“Take personal charge of them by watering and seeing them properly established and growing healthy with the application of little manure and regular watering.”
The Minister urged all Ghanaians to take part in the exercise and contribute their resources to aid the realisation of the project.
The Ministry planted orange trees, decorative palm trees while others planted coconuts, mangoes, pawpaw and more, which can be enjoyed in the near future.
The Minister and her staff planted their trees in a garden in front of the Ministry and at KAITC, all in Accra.
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Frontpageghana.com/Ghana
