Dr. Val Attah seeks protection of natural environment

Following advocacy for the socio-economic development of Nigeria in the face of dwindling oil prices, a development expert Dr. Val Attah, has called for sustainable uses of biodiversity and protection of eco-system to ensuring economic balancing saying that lack of sustainable usage of these resources has posed serious environmental risks with attendant generational problems.

Dr. Val Attah a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Forestry/Natural Environmental Management, University of Uyo and a retired Permanent Secretary with Akwa Ibom State Government, said this while interacting with Newsmen, stressing that Nigeria and the Akwa Ibom State in particular is blessed with abundant forest resources which if harnessed would serve as an alternative to the oil especially as the prices has dwindled in recent past noting that eco-tourism and development of the agricultural sector will turn around the economy of the nation and Akwa Ibom while calling for implementation of laudable, policies that would sustained economy development

Dr. Attah, a Former UN Advisor, expressed the hope that there is need to strike a balance between human and the eco-system, the need to give consideration to climate change and also refrained from unsustainable deforestation and other activities which could be hazardous noting that nature is already in conflict with man, the reasons we have cases of “Ebola” deriving from bushment and “Lassa” from rabbit. 

On Supreme Court judgment re-affirming Governor Udom Emmanuel, he expressed delight saying that it has restored the integrity of the judiciary for telling the truth, saying that judges in the Supreme Court are there on merit and he called on those aggrieved to bury their hatchet and support Governor Udom Emmanuel administration.

The University Don, used the occasion to expressed appreciation of God for seeing him through the Civil Service career which spans from 1970 where he left as a Permanent Secretary, noting that he is in the university to contribute his quota on mentorship of younger generation and promises to live a legacy in the task of moulding, training and building the society.