Advocacy Visit To The Honorable Commissioner Environment: Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources

A coalition of CSOs on environment paid an advocacy visit to the Commissioner Environment: Ministry of environment and natural resources to seek for partnership with the ministry on issues that affects the environment

The team which was led by the Executive Director Bridge That Gap Initiative, Gloria Kassang Bulus congratulated the Commissioner on his appointment and also thanked him for giving the group the audience. She said that the visit came as a result of issues affecting the environment, which is the most neglected sectors. She said this negligence is supposed to be a thing of concern to the state, nation and even whole world. When the environment is not conducive, all other sectors suffers (Education, Finance, health e.t.c)

She also stressed on the need for Open Governance Participation (OGP), where citizens are invited to partake in policy formulation for the environment.

Mr. Dangwa Abbas Danjuma who further buttress on the need for OGP said this dialogue mechanism will be a welcomed idea to allow citizens participate in Policy review, Implementation and budget co-creation

The Honorable Commissioner Mallam Ibrahim Garba Hussaini  welcomed the CSOs and promised to partner with them to make the environment conducive, he further stated that the environment sector is not the most neglected sector as Kaduna Environmental Protection Agency (KEPA) was the first or second environmental agency established, and it is the most effective environmental agency in Nigeria.

According to him the ministry has partnered with other NGOs and Stakeholders who are interested in environment here in Kaduna, Nigeria and the world at large. Issues of the environments are complex and need to be priorities, negligence comes if the staff that occupy that office show little or no interest or the government of the day has no interest in the issues of environment.

He assured the team that citizens and stakeholders will be engaged so that they will assist the governments in reporting issues that affects the environment.

The Permanent Secretary encouraged the team to ‘knock on our door anytime you seek information because we are willing to share information with you’.
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