The Increased tree coverage countrywide will boost the country's forest cover, biodiversity, wildlife conservancies and water catchment areas among others in line with the National Tree Planting Initiative by President Dr.
William Ruto.
Speaking during a meeting with Heads of Departments (HODs) for State Department for Broadcasting and Telecommunication, on Monday at the State Department Headquarters in Nairobi, the Secretary for Administration for Broadcasting and Telecommunications Kimani Waweru who was chairing the meeting on behalf of Principal Secretary State Department for Broadcasting and Telecommunications Stephen Isaboke, said that the State Department is on course in strengthening its tree planting efforts to achieve the set target of planning five million trees this financial year.
Waweru urged the Heads of Departments to come up with strategies to execute tree planting exercises in regions of Kisii and Nandi Counties where the Ministry of Information, Communications and The Digital Economy is overseeing tree planting exercises in order to achieve their targets for the financial year. "Let us come up with better strategies for achieving the set target of the number of trees we are to plant as a department in line with the National Tree Planting Initiative," he said. He called for concerted efforts from the HODs in implementing the Tree Planting exercise urging them to fast-track the process to meet set targets before the end of the financial year. The National Tree Planting Initiative targets planting of 15 billion trees by 2032 during the long and short rainy seasons with the goal of increasing the country's forest cover and boosting the overall ecosystem management.
