‘Climate Crisis Worsens due to Human Activities -Ex-Sen. Abbo

By Yagana Ali, Yola.

Former senator Ishiyaku Abbo, who represented Adamawa northern zone has attributed the recent climate crisis witnessed in the country to human activities.

Senator Abbo made this known during a one-day seminar organized by the Iliya Yame Kwache Foundation for Justice, Peace, and Development.

The Nations News Nigeriareports that the seminar was held to address the escalating climate crisis and highlighted the urgent need for proactive measures.

Senator Abbo emphasized that human activities have wounded our climate, which in turn is retaliating through heatwaves, floods, landslides, droughts, and desert encroachment.

These conditions are exacerbating conflicts over resources, particularly between farmers and herders.

Stakeholders at the seminar proposed several solutions to mitigate these challenges, including extensive tree planting, preserving forest resources, ending open grazing, and introducing climate studies in educational curriculums at all levels.

Earlier in a remark, the chairman of the event, Most Rev. Musa Panti Filibus underscored afforestation and reforestation as key strategies to reduce the ongoing conflicts between farmers and herders.

Responding, the chairman of the foundation, Iliya Yame Kwache,, explained that the seminar aimed to educate the public on the benefits of tree planting and the importance of justice and peace-building in communities. Kwache highlighted that since its inception, the foundation has championed the planting and maintenance of thousands of trees to combat climate change and promised to continue these efforts.

Vahyala Adamu Teri who is one of the speakers at the seminar has posited that the effect of climate change which the world is currently grappling with is worse than the effect of global terrorism calling on all stakeholders to come together to proffer solutions to the problem which constitute great threat to the society .

The university don added that the climate crisis has also worsened poverty occasioned by loss of jobs, competition for scarce resources like water and land and has introduced new dynamics and variables into the raging farmers/herders conflict especially within the Sahel region.

The seminar concluded with a collective call for immediate and sustained action to protect and restore the environment for our future generations.