CORPS MEMBER PLANTS TREES, INAUGURATES ENVIRONMENTAL CLUBS

A youth Corps member, serving in Gusau Zamfara State, Mr. Kogbe Oluwabamidele Ibrahim of Millennium Development CD Group has planted fifty-five trees, did photo exhibition and established Students Environment Care Society (SECAS) as his Personal Community Development projects at Government Day Secondary School, Janyau in Gusau, Zamfara State.
Delivering his welcome speech at the commissioning of the projects, Mr. Kogbe Oluwabamidele Ibrahim said his motivation was to contribute to the success of MDGs Seventh, "to Ensure Environmental Sustainability’ especially in an environment that is vulnerable to desert encroachment. He also made the importance of his novel environmental club known. He said most of the trees and other environmental sustaining projects have become parts and parcel of the youth Corps members across the nation. Hence, his initiated club which he believed will be embraced nationally by not only the Corps members of likes mind but also by environmental care advocates, Non-governmental Organizations, Schools among others to inculcate the culture of environmental care and importance of tree planting, in the mind of the students and youths, especially in the Northern part of the country.
Commending the Corps Member, Mr Chuka Osuwagu, the head of CDS who represented Zamfara State NYSC Coordinator, said the NYSC was proud of Kogbe for taking it as an onus to contribute to the development of the school. He further urged the youth Corps members to emulates the patriotic gesture of his.
Giving the votes of thanks at the Programme, Mallam Hahdi Abdullah, the Vice Principal of the school, thanked the Corps member on behalf of the school management and students. In his words, " the name of Mr Kogbe has entered the log book of the school and we are proud to be the first school in the whole Zamfara State that benefits as founding members of SECAS"
The head girl of the school who is also the secretary of the SECAS said " we are really grateful to uncle Kogbe for setting the pace from our school. We have been trained as responsible citizens most especially in Environmental care of our land. we can never forget him"
The commissioning was graced by NYSC officials, Mallam Abdullah Babagana of WHO, Janyau, Community leaders, Principals and teachers from other schools, Youth Corps members, and well wishers.