Very Rev. Father Stephen Amoah-Gyasi, Director for Socio-Economic Development and Caritas for the Archdiocese of Cape Coast has urged government to pay all outstanding arrears owed youths employed under its Youth in Afforestation programme.
According to him, Ghana can never achieve its goal on afforestation should individuals employed to effect the change keeps wallowing in hunger.
He said this after a team of delegation from the Central Regional Forestry Department visited Cornelia Cornelly School in Cape Coast to plant trees in commemoration of the recently held Green Ghana Day.
The Youth in Afforestation programme initiated in 2018, aims to restore the country's degraded forest cover through reforestation, rehabilitation and protection to also create jobs for unemployed youths in Ghana.
Rev. Father Amoah-Gyasi opined, it has come to his notice that the government till date owe organizations through which last year's Green Ghana Day seedlings were obtained.
He lamented this isn't the way to go if Ghana is indeed serious to restore its degraded forest landscapes.
The revered Roman Father stressed that generation yet unborn if care is not taken will grow to ignore vital initiatives like the Green Ghana Day over how government has chosen to approach the exercise in its early stage.
He urged government to take stringent mechanism towards those destroying the country's water bodies and forest reserves over their selfish acquisition for gold as he encouraged Christians to inculcate the habit of tree planting as inscribed in the Holy Bible to exist in paradise.
Rev. Father Stephen Amoah-Gyasi further pledged that the Roman Catholic Church-Ghana will continually rally support behind every government whose initiative aims at bettering the living condition of indigenes in the country likewise the Green Ghana project.
The government through its Green Ghana Day initiative marked this year on the theme: "Our Forests, Our Health" had an estimated target to plant at least 10 million seedlings across the country.
Source//Sompaonline.com/Eric Annan