The immediate past lawmaker representing Adamawa North senatorial district, Senator Elisha Ishiaku Abbo, has warned against the danger of paying lip service to the issue of climate change. He called on government and political leaders at all levels to brace up to the challenge and invest the money they were supposed to have stolen on infrastructure and tree planting to safeguard humanity and future generations.
He gave this warning in an interview with journalists in Yola at a one-day-seminar on afforestation and reforestation organised by I.Y Kwache Foundation.
The event was part of its activities to mark this year’s mass annual tree planting campaign, during which the former lawmaker expressed serious concern that Nigeria is facing so much desertification challenges with over five million meter desert encroachment per year.
“If you think you are suffering now, what awaits your children and great grand children in the future, is one million times worse than what you are currently going through. Unless we come together to safe the people that will come after us, that is our children and great grand children, by doing what the foundation is doing now to fight and roll back the desert through tree planting government can do that by doing the right thing to stop corruption and use the money stolen and invest it back to infrastructure, tree planting and preservation our cultural heritages.”
Abbo further stated that tree planting is like giving life back to the mother earth and he believes in the environment. That is why he flies from Abuja to come and support the founder and the foundation because they need their support and encouragement with a promise to partner with the foundation at all times to drive forward the agenda for the sake of humanity.
He urged the foundation to keep up the good work of serving humanity and restoring the environment.