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Yar ‘Adua Approves New Guidelines For Ecological Fund
President Umaru Yar’Adua has approved new guidelines for the application of the Ecological Fund with a view to ensuring effective utilisation of the fund.
Minister of Environment, John Odey disclosed this Thursday while addressing members of the National Committee on Ecological Problems set up by Yar’Adua.
Odey, who doubles as the chairman of the committee said in a response to a question for the amount for the ecological fund in this year’s budget, that these is no provision in the 2009 budget for ecological fund.
According to him, in line with the discretion of Yar’Adua, 60 per cent of the fund would be earmarked for drought and desertification, 25% for soil erosion and flood/gully erosion, pollution control and oil spillages while 10 per cent will be devoted to administration of the ecological fund office, National Committee on Environmental Problem (NCEP).
The minister said “the main thrust of the new guideline is the resolve of the present administration to recognise desertification as a grave ecological problem which poses alarming threats to the southern part of the country much as it does to the frontline states of the North.”
Odey noted that the effect of climate change in the country has greatly increased the sea level as a result of the melting ice, increase in coastal erosion, flooding in all parts of the country, adding that the desertification is rising at 650 meter per annum.
To effectively tackle the problem, the minister resolve to adequately address the menace of desert encroachment so that the country will not lose its entire length and breath to the ravaging force of desertification.
But one of the programmes designed to tackle the menace, he said is the National Afforestation Programme intended to combat the twin problems of desertification in the North and deforestification in the South resulting mainly from the activities of operators in the wood industry.
The minister, therefore, assured of the administration’s commitment to addressing other ecological problems, while pursuing drought and desertification control with enhance vigour.
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