UER: Shea nut pickers, honey collectors, herdsmen and others caused bush fire burning– Forestry Commission
According to the Upper East Regional Forestry Manager Emmanuel Yeboah, research has shown that some of the bushfires burning in the Upper East Region are caused by shea nut pickers, honey collectors, charcoal burners, herdsmen, and farmers themselves. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com on Tuesday, September 6, 2022, Mr. Yeboah pointed out that the majority of these identifiable groups captured above engaged in such activities to pave way for their individual survival. He said: “in the five Northern Regions, bush fire is a major problem. Because we have a long dry period of about eight months, the late part of October, November, and December are all dry periods. Uncontrolled grazing, mostly for the herdsmen, when the grass is too dry, they will set fire to pave way for new vegetation to come for their animals. Farmers, some of them before they farm want to set fire so that they burn the grass and farm the land. Some of them when they are farming, they don’t use tractors they use Bullocks. So they also set fire and when they set fire and is not control, it goes beyond certain boundaries and the grains around will all get burnt”. He explained He further revealed that “research has shown that, some of these fires are set by people picking Shea nut and also Honey collectors equally cause bush fire and the charcoal burners’ so things that cause a fire if you don’t know them you will think that they are intentionally causing harm. Then, there is what we call a conflict of interest. Because it interests them to get survival. When they do this, it affects everything even the trees that we have planted.However, the Forestry Commission said they are doing their best to sensitize communities on the effect of bush burning in the region. Source: Apexnewsgh.com For publication please kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com
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See how Upper East Region missed a golden opportunity in 2018 from Dr. Bawumia
A member of the NPP’s Upper East Regional communication team, Johnson Ayine has revealed that efforts made by the Vice President to institute some wonderful measures that would have inured to the benefit of regional development in 2018 were destroyed by the same people recommended to the Vice President as ‘Neutrals’ by their own party executives. Johnson Ayine made the revelation on Apexnewsgh.com’s “SPEAK OUT UPPER EAST” program on Wed, September 07, 2022. According to him, “In 2018, the Vice President of the land, sent a communique to the regional executive then and party elders. That should identify people who are not politicians but development advocates for him to meet them because he doesn’t want to be relying on what the party briefs him. So that from time, he will be taking information from them, some of our brothers were given the opportunity. He said, even the then Regional Minister Rockson Bukari was not allowed to be part of the meeting, because the meeting demanded that the Regional Minister shouldn’t be part, “it was only the Vice President and they themselves and the meeting ended around 1 am midnight. Dr. Ayars as at that period was his aide, he wasn’t in charge of NABCO”. Do you know what happens? The following week some of them were on the radio lambasting the government and our regional executives were the people who selected those participants before you realized the information got back and that was how they spoiled that opportunity. So, if those participants had not done those politics with that arrangement by the Vice President, it would have helped. Today, who told you that the other region’s own was not successful? So, those regions own are successful and he is getting information from neutrals and their regions are doing better than us and we say the party has neglected Upper East not knowing we have done that to ourselves. You can blame those who had the opportunity to meet him. We are engaged in unnecessary competition and jealousy is seriously affecting human growth and development in the region. He said Source: Apexnewsgh.com For publication kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com