American billionaire, Jeff Bezos has praised Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari for his leadership role in restoring degraded lands in the country.
According to a statement from the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the founder of Amazon did this on Monday, November 1, in Glasgow, Scotland.
Bezos had joined President Buhari, French President Emmanuel Macron, Prince Charles and the Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani at a COP 26 side event entitled “Accelerating land restoration in Africa, the case of the Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative.”.
, Garba stated that during the event co-hosted by the French President, his Mauritanian counterpart and the Prince of Wales, Jeff Bezos heaped praises on President Buhari.
According to him, Jeff described the Nigerian leader’s commitment to restore 4 million hectares as exemplary.
‘‘We are fortunate to have President Buhari of Nigeria with us today. Nigeria plays a critical role in the restoration movement and has pledged to restore 4 million hectares of degraded lands.
‘This kind of ambition coming from Africa’s largest economy underscores just how vital this issue is.’’ the statement reads in part.
Note that Bezos Earth Fund has a 10 billion dollar fund to allocate money to projects fighting climate change.
Meanwhile, as Nigeria is due to assume the leadership of the Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Pan African Agency of the Great Green Wall, President Buhari had used the occasion of his address to appeal to fellow leaders to keep on putting forth purposeful attempts at land restoration.
He said;
‘‘I am optimistic that Africa’s ambition of restoring over 100million hectares of degraded landscape for productive agriculture is achievable”.
Going further, President Buhari also pledged Nigeria’s unalloyed obligation to extending the accomplishments of the GGW program in Africa from the fortunate status achieved under the authority of President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani of Mauritania.
He said;
‘‘Together we commit to the transformative process of restoring the African degraded landscape and ultimately the continent’s environment”.
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