Eko Ile:

I'm not interested in your alagomeji madness, dwell free to kill yourself over that. My gripe with you is your idiotic and ignorant understanding regarding tree planting and also how you think planting even planting flowers is no big deal.

Only a dumb idiots like you makes silly and ignorant distinctions about flowers and ornermnents, especially whent we all know the importance of any and every plant to the environment and the air we breath.

It's safe and good for humanity that ignorant and reckless people like you are not in charge of anything but your clueless and ignorant world.

ezeagu:

"Igbos need to know how preserve Ala igbo"

"Yes they do, although it's not the region that has lost most trees, it's still very green despite the erosion in places."

How did you misread that?

jmaine:

In your usual bid to escape you ended up rambling incoherently without saying nothing as regards the questions . . . . Only abberent fools like you indulge in discussions way above your mangled brain cells . . . . Only fools reference a thread they failed woefully in . . . i would take my leave for now till you go on another aimless hype journey  . . .

okstol:

@Naijaking, felling down of trees for economic reasons is alien to the east. The ones u see are those that obstruct road construction or building of houses. Most of d logs @ our markets are mostly from Bayelsa, Delta and Edo states respectively. Tree planting has been a yearly activity of Anambra state government. I have witnessed some. Aint good castigating people on ethnic line.

South-East:

Yes, erosion is a problem in the SE, but it is also a big issue in Edo, Cross Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Benue (google)
Ocean surge is a problem in Lagos, Rivers, Bayesla etc
Desertification is an issue in the North
Massive flooding is a problem in SW states
Erosion also ocurs in Ibadan- Visit UI-Ojoo-IITA road heading to Ilorin

Tree planting is but only an aspect of soil protection measures, which may not work well in some land slide instances, depending on the ferocity- the trees will simply be uprooted
Grass planting is also an option
Overall, all sorts of environmental and civil engineering can be harnessed to try to tackle the menace

seanet02:

Ibo and their stupid1ty sha

naijaking1:

It used to be alien, but not any more. Go to any village, you will hear the sound of chain saws buzzing all over the place. Edo, Sapele for instance used to be the major woodmarket for the south, but the trade is fastly encroaching the main Igboland. The alarm is that these trees are not been replace at a rate close to how they're being felled.
This is not about ethnicity, I am from the area and I have first hand information.

Once again, every state has its own unique ecosystem. Lagos is different from Ogun, Edo, Anambra, and even Enugu. All the land slides occuring in Enugu state for the past 10-20 years have always been in areas where the overhead tree shades have been decimated.(I know because 2 of the big ones occured in my place). People need to study their environment as a way of projecting it.

South-East:

SW and SE which is actually greener?

okstol:

@Naijaking, I'm into haulage business, my 911 trucks are mostly in transporting of woods to different parts of the east. As i'm typing now, there are up to 13 trucks waiting to be offloaded @ the bridge-head market Onitsha. What you need to say is that, we have to improve on whatever budget we have on tree planting. Like I said in my earlier post, there are chunks of lands in the states (Anambra to be precise) where the state government has planted menila "sic" trees to check erosion menace.

naijaking1:

I don't know why you insist on making this issue political, it's survival as far as I know. If you understand that each state and region is unique in its own ecosystem, you'll understand why your question is redudndant. Lagos has an ecosystem that includes the ocean, swamps, and forest. Ibadan has problem with flood control, because someone decided to constrict the Ogunkpa steam drainage. We in the east have been blessed with a failry stable ecosystem until recently. The effect of cutting a tree this year would not be seen until 3-5 years time when the buried roots dry, shrink, and open a big gulley in the soil, and then erosion with subsequent rainfall.
Who cares whether Lagos is submerged into the ocean, or Ibadan is flooded like in the days of Noah, but my concern is that Igbos learn how to balance their own ecosystem. We don't have to suffer because others are suffereing too.

Eko Ile
Always been. The region is siting on a hilly terrain and when you mix hilly terrain and heavy flooding together, you get serious gully erosion.

Deforestation is another problem in the area.

I'm not interested in your bogus on paper tree planting scheme? Show us pictures of your leaders planting trees and where the trees were planted.

karpenter:

@Eko Ile.
Why do you hate the Ibos that much? You are supposed to be female! Females don't hate like that. I have never seen a thing like this before. Abeg take am easy.

lagcity:

Eko Ile is female, really? wow surprise. i've always thought Eko Ile is male.

[size=16pt]Anyway, Let's stop this tribal bashing, enough is enough haba![/size]

SEner:

Eko Ile:

So newspaper reports are now bogus?
Yet, the subject of this thread came off a newspaper report

How do we classify you?

On the issue of photos, I guess not everyone likes to be in the camera like Fashola for every FLIMSY REASON. Does that mean they are not working?

SEner:

I do not know how the SE is hillier and more flooded than Oyo and Ogun and Osun and Ondo
Some ignoramuses and their ways

SEner:


But I asked that you confirm that Igbo Govs deliberately cut down trees. I know that many states have tree planting programs. I participated in them many years ago. I am not sure that hewing down trees occurs more in SE than elsewhere and you may want to consider the fact that the erosion problem in the entire east of Nigeria (SE/SS) is due more to soil structure than soil cover.

My political response was to the likes of Eko Ile who assume that because Fasola plants a few trees, no other Gov does.
Ultimately most regions of the south suffer similar ecological problems, of course, to different extents
The only ecological problem perculiar to specific groups is desertification in the core north and ocean surge in the coastal states.

asha 80:

erosion problems in the south east is more about the soil texture than felling of trees.

SEner:


I am not sure that hewing down trees occurs more in SE than elsewhere and you may want to consider the fact that the erosion problem in the entire east of Nigeria (SE/SS) is due more to soil structure than soil cover.

Eko Ile:


Beyond platitudes and empty talk, show me any picture of your leaders planting trees? That shouldn't be hard to do.


Your kinfolk posted some article about tree planting and after reading the yeye article, they planted only 10 freeking trees? How do you set off a tree plantine program and all you did was plant just 10 freeking trees?

Lagos state alone planted 3 million trees and you jokers are talking about some 10 trees planting program


Are you people for real?