Ecological team visits Adamawa to assess environment challenges

A delegation from the ecological fund is in Adamawa state to assess environmental challenges capable of posing threats for the people of the state.

Mr. Doyin Musilim, who led the delegation on a visit to the governor of the state, Alhaji Umaru Jibrilla Bindow, explained that the exercise is a nationwide assignment.

He said the team is in the state to tour the twenty one local government areas of the state in company of the state Commissioner of Environment.

Doyin Musilim further noted that the six man team will also visit Taraba state on the same mission and appealed for support of the state government in the areas of security to enable them discharge their assignment while in the state.

Responding, the governor of Adamawa state, Sen Muhammad Umaru Jibrilla, said Adamawa state is “safe and stable”, emphasising that “it is gratifying to know that the team is in the state to see for itself the environmental challenges the state is facing”.

He directed the state Commissioner of Environment to provide all the necessary support to enable the team discharge the assignment without any hitch.

Tom Garba, Yola