Timber Procurement Policy would save Ghana’s forests—Gov’t told

A Principal Operations Officer of the Public Procurement Agency (PPA), Mr. Francis Ayittey, is urging government to consider the proposed Public Procurement Policy on Timber and Timber Products (PPP) on Legal wood, to save Ghana’s forests from extinction.

Mr. Ayittey, who was speaking at a Stakeholders’ Discussion on the proposed PPP, organized by the Nature and Development Foundation (NDF), argued that, fears of contract cost going up as a result of the policy, are allayed by the numerous benefits the nation can derive as a result of conservation and sustainability of wood supply.

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