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The former president, Jerry John Rawlings, in collaboration with Zoomlion Ghana Limited and the Forestry Commission, began a weeklong tree planting exercise in parts of Accra to commemorate the day. This year, June 4th.
Flt. Lieutenant JJ Rawlings led the junior officers on June 4 during a revolution in a violent uprising in Ghana in 1979, resulting from a combination of corruption, poor governance, lack of discipline, frustration of public and lack of discipline within the government. Ghanaian army and society.
By planting the first tree, Rawlings urged the Ghanaian media to use their platforms to educate the people of Ghana on the need to protect the environment and plant more trees for a long life.
He called on civil society organizations and government agencies to instill tree planting culture in order to mitigate global warming and avoid environmental degradation.
It also urges the government, and in particular the law enforcement agencies, to ensure that environmental sanitation laws are strictly enforced.
President Rawlings believes that community policing is the best strategy to force unpatriotic Ghanaians to respect the laws of Ghana.
For his part, Joseph Siaw Agyepong, president of the Jospong Group of Companies and Zoomlion Ghana Ltd, thanked President Rawlings for inviting Zoomlion to join in the tree planting exercise. He recounted how Zoomlion has been working since 2007 with different stakeholders in tree planting and cleaning exercises.
He called on the media to continue to sensitize the population against the felling and killing of trees, among others, to create an improved environment in Ghana, saying that if the city of Dubai was such that she is now in a desert, Ghana can do better, but not without conscience. citizens' efforts to keep the environment clean and beautiful.
Mr. Agyepong has asked all Ghanaians to be a watchdog to ensure that trees are not felled for construction unless the necessary precautionary measures are taken with the agencies. l & # 39; State.
He badured that his outfit would continue to plant as many trees as possible and would support all those who would seek his collaboration in the fields of the environment and sanitation.
National President of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Samuel Ofusu Ampofo, said the party was based on the principles of discipline, including the protection of the environment, and that, given the fact that the As the environment deteriorated daily, it was appropriate for the holiday to encourage the planting of trees for his birthday.
More than three hundred trees have been planted along Shiashie – Legon Street and more will be added across the city of Accra.
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