He said the church was planting about 500,000 seedlings nationwide to complement government’s effort in greening Ghana to fight desertification and climate change.
“When this is done there would be food security in the nation as well as protecting the water bodies with a healthy environment thereby curbing epidemics,” he indicated.
Apostle Frimpong pointed out that, the Anim Retreat Centre (ARC) which is being developed as the convention centre of the church will include educational and health facilities and seminary for the various leaderships in the church.
Others are a prayer centre, campus for the Christ Apostolic University College and a 5,000 capacity conference hall among others.
He admonished all and sundry that, the good future of Ghana that everybody is looking for can only be achieved when everybody put their hands on deck and work together as one people and do the right thing.
The President, Nana Akufo-Addo, launched the second edition of the Green Ghana Day to plant 20 million trees on March 1, 2022 this year as the government’s aggressive afforestation and reforestation programme to mitigate deforestation and climate change effects on the country.
Apostle Frimpong was accompanied by Apostle Benjamin Ahenful, Accra West Territorial Apostle and some pastors and members of the church.
At the Ga Central Municipal Assembly, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Ga Central Municipal Assembly, Mr Bashiru Mohammed, has said that in line with the Green Ghana project, each household would be given a tree to plant.
He said strict monitoring mechanism would be put in place to ensure that there is full compliance to the exercise.
Speaking in an interview after the observation of Green Ghana Day during which trees were planted in the median of Anyaa-Pokuase road, he said humanity owes it a duty to ensure that policy measures and a call to action is put in place to stem the negative effects of climate change.
He called on all citizens to put their hands on deck to ensure that success was achieved, adding that a greater effort would ensure greater dividends.
“We have to protect the environment and take conscious steps to reverse the adverse trend of the ozone layer which remains a threat to humanity due to the negative environmental practices.”
The Member of Parliament for Anyaa-Sowutuom, Mr Dickson Adomaku Kissi, urged all citizens to value the relationship between trees and human beings.
As humans, he said we need to always keep the world better than we came to meet it, adding that with that mindset the world would always be a better place.
From the La Dade-Kotopon Municipal Assembly (LaDMA) in Accra VICTOR A. BUXTON reports that the assembly was targeting 15,000 seedlings across the municipality as part of the activities.
The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of LaDMA, Solomon Kotey Nikoi, planted the first tree in the municipality, followed by the Coordinator Director, Daniel Nkrumah
Ms Emilia Monney, the Director of Agric, Madam Habiba Kotomah, Director of Education and other dignitaries within the municipality took turns to plant a tree each.
Mr Nikoi called on all stakeholders to actively participate in the exercise and fully take responsibility of the seedlings to be planted.
The director said her outfit, National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) and few relevant departments under the assembly are to assiduously monitor the progress of the seedlings and also offer any technical support to any member in the community to enable the trees to mature well.
She stressed that prior to the exercise, the assembly had embarked on an awareness creation to sensitise residents on the exercise and how to properly monitor and care for the trees.
Ms Kotomah promised her outfit’s support towards the exercise by ensuring each school plants trees in and around their schools.
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