Thursday 20th February, 2020
By
Mohammed Balu, GNA
Tumu, (UWR) Feb. 20,
GNA – Some angry Sissala Youth have barricaded the offices of the Forestry
Commission in Tumu demanding the immediate transfer of the staff for their
alleged involvement in rosewood business.
The youth alleged
some officials of the Tumu office of the Forestry Commission were in collusion
with the latest harvest of rosewood under the guise of papal, newly discovered
exportable tree species.
Mr Issifu Alidu
Napun, President of the Sissala Youth who led a group to lock up the offices
said all attempts to meet the officials of the forestry division over the
latest invasion of the Sissala East and West by illegal loggers failed.
He said the youth in
one of such visits found out that the “officials were avoiding us and we
know there are insiders aiding the illegal logging and promoters of the banned
harvest of rosewood”.
Mr Karim Nanyua, the
Sissala East MCE has since moved in to hold an emergency meeting with the youth
who claimed harvest of rosewood and papal had resumed in large quantities in
the area and want it stopped.
Mr Napun said
rosewood harvest have left thousands of species including papal and other trees
destroyed and until the ban was effectively enforced, the problem would
continue unabated.
GNA