MUHARRAM 11, 1430 A.H.
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 7 2009
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Yobe to supplement wood fuel
The Yobe Government is to procure 20,000 pressurised cooking stoves to supplement the use of wood fuel and check indiscriminate felling of trees.
The Commissioner for Environment, Alhaji Musa Dumburi, disclosed this on Tuesday while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Damaturu.
Dumburi said that was one of the measures taken by the government to control illegal felling of trees with a view to checking desert encroachment and that the facility would be provided in phases.
``The use of these stoves is cheaper, easier and faster.
We will encourage its patronage among the people in the urban and rural areas,'' the commissioner said.
Government, he said, had equipped forest guards to patrol forests and reserved areas.
``We will also daily monitor wood vendors and confiscate fresh trees cut down and punish the culprits,'' he said.
Dumburi said that the government had successfully checked the invasion of wood vendors from Kano and Maiduguri, who allegedly engaged in felling trees.
He, however, said that government had no problem with those felling dry woods, adding: ``If they don't cut them down, termites will eat them up.
``But we will not tolerate the cutting down of fresh trees.
