Maseno University has received a major boost after three cabinet secretaries joined students and dons there over the weekend in planting over 1,000 trees.
Also in attendance during the event were women professionals from the Nyanza region who participated in the exercise at the institution that also boasts of an established botany department.
The exercise commenced after a session of educating the communities on the significance of trees in the environment, in this disturbing era of climate change.
This is in line with the Government of Kenya’s Bottom-up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA) that seeks to mainstream environmental conservation, stem climate change, reverse deforestation, biodiversity loss, and land degradation, by accelerating the planting of 15 billion trees nationwide by 2030.
Those present included the Vice Chancellor of Maseno University, Julius Nyabundi the Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Forestry, Soipan Tuya and the Cabinet Secretary for Labour Florence Bore and her Information, Communications and Digital Economy counterpart, Eliud Owalo.
Tuya said it was now a government policy that learning institutions are involved in the tree-planting exercise.
She said all regions have been given a target to achieve towards that end.
Tuya said the government objective of planting 15 billion trees by 2032 can be a reality and can be achieved.
Owalo said all government departments have been tasked to spearhead the tree planting exercise across the country.
He called on the four counties of Kisumu, Siaya, Homa Bay and Migori to take tree planting seriously.
By Fredrick Odiero
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