He made the promise in an interview with the media minutes after taking over office on Monday, March 15, 2021.
He said the menace of logging and commercial production of charcoal will be tackled head-on and brought to a stop within a month
“We have tried so many times to stop illegal logging in my days as MCE for West Gonja, unfortunately, things didn’t go as planned. I promised during my vetting that I will stop illegal logging in the region, so I will meet REGSEC within a week and set up a working committee to stop the menace,” Mr. Jibril said.
He also said commercial production of charcoal will be stopped as well.
According to him, “charcoal burning in commercial quantities is causing more harm to the environment than even the illegal logging, so these are the areas I’m going to look at.”
He subsequently gave loggers and commercial producers of charcoal a 30-day ultimatum to vacate the region.