Make kerosene available, affordable to check deforestation

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A queue for kerosene at an NNPC filling station.

WORRIED by the threats of deforestation in the country, a Bauchi based Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) known as, ‘Natural Resources Conservation Foundation’ has appealed to the Federal Government to make kerosene available and affordable to the common man in order to avoid reckless felling down of trees to make firewood and charcoals for cooking.

Addressing Journalists Sunday in Bauchi, Chairman of the Foundation, Dr Ahmad Mai Abba lamented that the reckless cutting down of trees in the society is creating artificial desertification and other disasters such as the recent windstorm that rocked the most parts of the State claiming many lives and destroying properties worth several millions of Naira.

Ahmad Mai Abba who expressed the resolve of the NGO to embark on the massive awareness campaign on the negative activities of dumping…



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