KMA rallies public for massive tree planting exercise

As part of intensified efforts to restore the city of Kumasi to its former accolade of “Garden City”, a massive tree-planting exercise would be organised in the metropolis on Saturday.

About 5,000 boundary trees are expected to be planted on that day, along designated major routes - Accra-Asafo-Bebre, Anloga-Junction-Airport Roundabout, Suame Roundabout, Anloga-Junction-Asokwa Interchange, Asafo-Ahmadiya-Roundabout-Coca-Cola, and the Bekwai Roundabout-Opoku-Ware-Santasi-Anyinam roads.

A press statement signed by Godwin Okuma Nyame, Public Relations Officer of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), said the exercise ties in with its recently-launched Kumasi Urban Forestry Project that has targeted the planting of over one million trees by the year 2017.

It said seedlings for the exercise, which begins at 0700 hours and ends at midday, would be made available at the various sub-metropolitan councils.

Financial institutions, traditional authorities, religious bodies and other civil society organizations, are among those who would be on hand to participate.

The release asked drivers and other commuters, plying the designated routes, to be careful.