Ekiti State Forestry Commission has said it is fully committed to actualizing its mandate of reducing the rate of deforestation in the State and combatting illegalities in the state forest reserves.
The Executive Secretary of the State Forestry Commission, Mr Sunday Adekunle, who gave the assurance during a meeting in Ado-Ekiti, said making its forest reserves more productive and flushing out men of the underworld from the reserves across the State were high on the agenda of the commission.
Adekunle said the plantation and nursery prepared for transplanting of the illegal weeds were destroyed in the operation, stressing that the recent recruitment of 22 new forest officers and 17 boundary guards by the Governor Biodun Oyebanji administration was having the required multiplier effect in terms of improved security through regular patrols of the forest reserves by the boundary guards and other officials of the Commission.
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