Enugu State Government on Thursday issued a final warning to persons involved in the unlawful logging and deforestation activities around the popular Milliken Hill, a conservation site in Ngwo Community of Enugu North Local Government Area.
The government warned them to desist from carrying out such illegal acts or be face the consequences.
Commissioner for Information Nnanyelugo Chidi Aroh, in a statement expressed deep concern over what he described as “unabating, deliberate and wicked logging in and around the Milliken Hill”.
According to him; “all relevant Government Agencies, including the Nigeria Police Force and Forest Guards, have been mandated as a matter of urgency to clamp down on all such activities and bring the perpetrators to justice”.
Aroh said that the nefarious activities have “continued to negatively affect the natural ecosystem, biodiversity and climate of the area and put the Milliken Hill Road at risk”.
He recalled the state government had previously warned against the unlawful activities “and indeed invited the press on a tour of Milliken Hill, to bring to public notice, the threat these illegal and senseless acts of a few, have brought, not just to the environment but also to the stability and sustenance of the Milliken Hill Road”.
While reiterating the state government’s unwavering commitment to protection of the environment and all infrastructure in the state, Aroh enjoined all well-meaning members of the public “to assist in the arrest/apprehension of these miscreants by promptly alerting the security agencies whenever they sight them engaging in their nefarious activities”.
