Green Thinking Action Party Leader Dr Isaac Kalua Green has commended President William Ruto on matters reinstating the logging ban in State Forests for Sustainable Environmental Progress [SEP]
In a press statement released to Media Houses on 4th July, Dr Green, noted President Ruto, has the best interests of forests as well as wellbeing of those who were affected in the legal logging
Kalua Green remarked that, “We also appreciate that as President, he is mandated to ensure the wellbeing of Kenyans, including those who were part of the legal logging value chain.
We appreciate that they were adversely affected after the logging moratorium which was instituted on February 24th, 2018,”.
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The celebrated ecoentrepreneur urged for the expansion of forests cover by planting 580 million trees per year outlining that Kenya loses 50,000 hectares of forest cover per year and replace that with less than that amount.
“Our annual per capita usage of timber is one cubic metre per person which is equivalent of three trees. On average, every Kenyan uses three fully grown 10-15 year old trees every year through various ways including charcoal burning and furniture. This poses at least 150 million trees used per year,” Part of the research cited.
Dr Green, who has been a champion for green cover, emphasised the need of putting interventions on importing timber from African countries with a forest cover of more than fifty percent
“Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the countries in Africa with over 70 percent forest cover, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea Bisau, Liberia and Seychelles.
We can import timber from them in the spirit of the African Continental Free Trade Area [AfCFTA] the President is championing. We can and should import timber from them until our own forest cover exceeds the fifty percent mark,” He observed.
Implementation of 2018 Taskforce Report
Dr Kalua Green, who is the founder of Green Africa Foundation further urged, President Ruto, to implement the 26 recommendations from the 2018 taskforce report presented to him by then Deputy President, one month later after he’d launched it on 5th March, 2018.
The 26 recommendations provided a clear roadmap for the management of forests resources. For instance, the need to employ more rangers to guard our forests, which would have been more important if legal logging resumes
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The Green Thinking Advocate, also called on establishment of Forest Regulatory Body, for overseeing legal logging, explaining that Kenya Forest Service managers, protects and sells forest resources which goes against the tenets of accountability
The 2018 report also recommended the Cabinet Secretary for Forestry to expedite the process of constituting a new KFS Board. Which would have enabled immediate commencement of the administrative investigation process for the sixteen suspended officers of KFS, among other urgent matters
It further [report] called for investigation of any member of the former Board of Directors of KFS against whom allegations of malpractices were made, and the necessary action be taken by the relevant agencies
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