The Director General of the State Interests and Governance Authority (SIGA) Asamoah-Boateng has charged all State owned-Entities (SOEs) to plant trees as part of the Green Ghana Day.
According to Mr Boateng, environmental friendliness is part of the mandate of SOEs and therefore greening environment which ties in with a nationwide campaign of Green Ghana should be embraced by all.
Mr Asamoah-Boateng made the call when he led management and staff of SIGA to plant TREES on their compound.
The General Manager in charge of Finance and Administration and the General Manager for Operations planted a TREE each whilst the heads of the various division in SIGA also planted a tree each.
The Director General also called on Corporate Ghana to add TREE planting and greening the environment as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility.
The Green Ghana Day is an initiative under the auspices of the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources and it is spearheaded by the Forestry Commission under the theme: “Forest Landscape Restoration: Planting five (5) million trees in a day”.
The Day will be celebrated annually and seeks to mobilize citizens to undertake massive nationwide tree planting exercises.
The Green Ghana Initiative seeks to achieve the following objectives: Green/ beautify our communities and towns, Protect watersheds, Mitigate climate change, create enhanced national awareness on the necessity for collective action towards the restoration of degraded landscapes in the country, inculcate in the youth the values of planting and nurturing trees and their associated benefits and to enhance livelihoods for rural communities through their engagement in the production of tree seedlings
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/103.5FM