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Now, it is over year when the Great Green Wall initiative programme of Sahara Sheltert belt was launched in Katsina. And sometimes in July last year, during the launching, former governor of the state, Barrister Ibrahim Shehu Shema, was quoted as saying:
“The state government has spent more than N600 million on environment-protection related programme, adding that as a way of protecting the environment, the state has about 48 nurseries and raises over 2.5 million seedlings annually which are distributed for free to farmers for onward planting.”
Though we need to be prudent in our spending, but it is most certain that people living in the vulnerably affected areas, would like the Governor Masari led state government to sustain all environmental protection programmes. Also, there is a strong need on the part of the people to reciprocate the government effort by watering and replanting their seedling ion order to complement the giant stride of the NGGW initiative in the state. By and lar4ge if what the agency is currently doing in Jibia is replicated in Daura axis, including Mai’aduwa, Baure and Zango , the state would be a role model among the 11 frontline states battling with the challenges of desertification and soil degradation.