Ogun to revive timber industry with N50m

To further provide more job opportunities for its teeming youths as well as increase its revenue, the Ogun State government had concluded plans to resuscitate the moribund Gateway Timber Industry Limited (GATIL) in the coming year.
Commissioner for Forestry, Chief Kolawole Lawal made this known while defending the 2017 budget of the Ministry at the House of Assembly Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.

Chief Lawal said GATIL, a state-owned Sawmill was in the past, known for processing timber into different specifications of finished products that were marketed across the Southwest geo-political zone.

Speaking on what would be required to revamp the ailing industry, the Commissioner said ‘’the sum of N50m naira would be used  to repair the CD6 machine, Edger Machine, Circular Sawing Machine and  other necessary maintenance work,’’

Lawal also informed that the sum of N278,000,000 had been budgeted for tree planting in 2017 while N10,000,000 and N62.500,000 had been earmarked for forest conservation and production of farm seedlings respectively.