Kano state government has ensured that it will do everything possible to mitigate the indiscriminate felling of trees and checkmate further enchroment at Falgore Game Reserve.
In line with this, the government added that it is working round the clock to safeguard the forest, and that among the measures it is putting in place is proposing to enact a game reserve protection law.
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The Managing Director, Kano State Zoological and Wildlife Management Agency, Sadiq Kura Mohammed disclosed this while shading more light on a recent working visit he paid to Falgore Game Reserve.
“When the said bill is fully drafted, it will be send to Ministry of Justice for necessary legal betting and later transmitted to the State House of Assembly, where it would be read on the floor of the House, througohly debated upon by Honorable Members, and subsequently pass into law.
“The management of KAZOWMA, through Ministry of Tourism and Culture, would work out and present the proposed bill. When passed into law, it will go in a long way in safeguarding the game reserve and the rangers,” he explained.
Mohammed then warned those who are in the habit of indiscriminately cutting down the trees for whatever reason and those who are settling down with their families in the forest to desist from that, otherwise the government will not spare anyone found wanting.
“I was appointed as the Managing Director of KAZOWMA by His Excellency, Kano State Governor Engr. Abba Kabir Yusuf to help him serve the good people of the state. Safeguarding Falgore Game Reserve, as the only remaining forest in the state, is one of my priorities. The game reserve is of utmost important to me,” he stressed.
The MD said the state government would liaise with appropriate security agencies to train the game rangers in handling of weapons, and armed them for self protection from criminal elements who are threatening their lives.
He then warned that the government would prosecute any forest sabotagers who harm the game rangers, whom he described as the ‘real hereos’.