Green Ghana Day 2022 marked in South Dayi

The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources under the auspices of the Presidency declared 10^th June 2022 “Green Ghana Day” with the aim of planting twenty million trees all over the country.

As part of measures to create awareness and whip up interest in the second edition of the Green Ghana Project, the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has activated a theme for this year’s celebration “Mobilizing for a Greener Future”. The slogan that goes with the occasion is ‘GREEN GHANA DAY’ and the response is “Lets Go Planting”.

South Dayi District Assembly got heavily involved in the exercise with its own target to plant 20,000 trees in different localities within the District.

The programme was launched  at  The District Assembly Hall, Kpeve  with the Hon. DCE for South Dayi District , Hon. Godwin Dadzawa , District Coordinating Director (DCD) Mr. Nathaniel Adzortor, District Agric Director, Mr. Enoch Dzadzra, District Education Director, Mr. Victor Kwaku Kovey, District Police Commander  ,Heads of Department/units of South Dayi District Assembly as well as Directors of public institutions, Paramount Chiefs, Assembly Members  and various levels of Educational Institutions were present.

Stating the purpose of gathering, The District Director of Agric, Mr. Enoch Dzadzra,  said ‘the commemoration was aimed at enhancing nation-wide efforts to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG-Goal 13) on Climate Change Mitigations and is of this reason the President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo has set aside  Today 10^th June 2022 as a nationwide tree planting exercise ‘GREEN GHANA DAY’’.

He further said ‘South Dayi District so far has been allocated 20,000 planting materials including Ofram, Mahogany, Teak, Iron Wood Tree (Milletia Thoningii ) and Bauhinia. These are for landscape planting, amenity, avenue planting and afforestation’.

Hon. Godwin Dadzawa, The District Chief Executive giving his solidarity message made mention that the exercise was initiated by the government to protect the trees and to plant more trees. He said the importance of trees should not be underestimated. He added that trees that are being destroyed and the rate at which they are being destroyed is a serious treat, if measures are not taken to replace them very soon there will be a serious problem in the country.

After the commemorative planting in the Assembly  landscape, distribution of planting materials took place under the supervision of the Department of Agriculture in all the three Zonal Areas of South Dayi District.