Minister for the Central Region, Hon. Justina Marigold Assan has charged the general public to make the planting of trees become a habit and not an annually undertaken exercise.

According to her, the planting of trees to mark the 4th edition of this year's Green Ghana Day, will have a magnanimous impact on the country's ecosystem.

With a regional target of 600,000 trees estimated to be planted across the Central Region, Hon. Justina Marigold Assan recounted the region to have exceeded its target with a tree distribution of 750,000.

Dignitaries who partook in this year's Green Ghana exercise in the Central Region with the Regional Minister on Friday include, DCOP Charles Kofi Adu, the Central Regional Police Commander, Archbishop Gabriel Palmer-Buckle, the Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of the Cape Coast Diocese, the Regional Forestry Manager, Prof. Johnson Nyarko Boampong, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast, among other revered personalities.

Selected venues by the Region's Forestry Commission which witnessed this year's exercise include the Central Regional Coordinator Council in Cape Coast, Hill Top of the University of Cape Coast, and the St. Teresa's Minor Seminary at Amisano in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem Constituency. 

Mr. Bennett Ntiamoah, the Central Regional Forestry Manager on the distributed tree seedlings, urged its receivers to plant and nurture them grow in other to achieve the purpose to which the trees were given out.

Archbishop Gabriel Palmer-Buckle, the Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of the Cape Coast Diocese on his account, eulogized the importance tree has on the human life and encouraged the general public to prioritize tree planting in other to aid in the access of better livelihood.

Sompaonline.com/Eric Annan