CS Kindiki declares climate change a national security threat
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Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki plants a tree during the launch of the national tree-growing exercise in Garissa County on November 13, 2023. | PHOTO: MINA
Interior
Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has listed climate change among the five
major national security threats Kenya is faced with.
Prof Kindiki
on Monday said the perennial friction between farmers and pastoralists, which has on many occasions led to deaths, injury and destruction of property, is a
consequence of the scramble for limited resources due to climate change.
He singled
out terrorism; banditry and livestock rustling; trade, use and abuse of illicit
alcohol, narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances; as well as cultural,
religious and political extremism as the other four national security threats.
The security
minister spoke when he launched the national tree-growing exercise in Garissa
County as part of the nationwide drive that kicked off with
Monday’s ‘Green Holiday’.
“Tree planting and
growing will be a national culture in the country and all National Government
Administration Officers (NGAOs) are directed to spearhead it in their
respective jurisdictions to save our country from the ravages of climate
change, including droughts and floods,” Kindiki said.
He
said more than 300,000 tree seedlings will be planted in the North Eastern
Region counties of Garissa, Mandera and Wajir, under the coordination of area
chiefs.
The tree-planting
exercise is in a bid to achieve President William Ruto's ambitious target of
1.5 billion trees in a year and 15 billion trees in the next 10 years.
It is part of a broader
programme aimed at combating deforestation and increasing the country’s tree
cover to mitigate the effects of climate change in the country.
Monday’s exercise saw
all cabinet secretaries oversee the drive in their allocated counties across the
country.
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