Group design measure to keep Jakande Estate Green.

The Estate Pacesetters (TEP) says it has planted 60 trees in Low-Cost Housing Estate Jakande Estate, Lagos, between 2018 and 2019 to make the estate green.

TEP’s Acting President, Mr Abiodun Iyiola, made the disclosure in Lagos.

Iyiola said, “visitors would visit the estate to behold and admire the creativity aimed to conserve nature and being part of the solution to climate change.”

He explained that the mission of the group was to plant as many trees as possible to beautify the environment.

Iyiola said that TEP wants to ensure that street trees were planted everywhere possible in the estate so that the estate would overtime carve out an image of a place where trees grow in abundance.

He said that tree planting should be a continuous exercise and not a day’s activity.

He emphasised that the benefits of trees were huge to mankind, noting the “simple science of what we breathe in and out.”

He said tree planting leads to a green environment which will ultimately provide shade, beautification, air quality and curb erosion.

He, therefore, appealed to residents with the group to educate and sensitise citizens on the user needs of trees.