The Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade as part of his administration’s resolve to conserve and protect the state’s one million hectares of forest reserve has set up a special strategy plan code-named Green Police.
The Green Police, according to the Governor, is charged with the policing and management of the state’s forest, preservation of the forest natural resources, urban afforestation, community-based control of illegal logging, monitoring and information system of the forest among others.
While signing a partnership deal for the development of the framework at the Governor’s conference room in Calabar the state capital with the UN Chief Technical Adviser on REDD+Programme, Allen Turner, Ayade spoke of the employment opportunities the partnership would create for about a thousand Cross River residents.
He further revealed that the partnership would, a great deal, reverse the trend of climate change which is on the increase across the globe.
The Technical Adviser expressed commitment in the project with a promise to meeting the standard and expectation of the international community of over 194 nations that signed the UN Climate Change Convention and REDD+.