{"id":3436,"date":"2020-07-10T16:21:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T16:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2020-07-10T16:53:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T16:53:35","slug":"environment-minister-warns-against-tree-logging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/10\/environment-minister-warns-against-tree-logging\/","title":{"rendered":"Environment Minister warns against tree logging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Minister-of-Environment-Josephine-Napwon-addressing-the-public-in-Torit-Town-Photo-by-Moyo-Jacob-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Minister-of-Environment-Josephine-Napwon-addressing-the-public-in-Torit-Town-Photo-by-Moyo-Jacob-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Minister-of-Environment-Josephine-Napwon-addressing-the-public-in-Torit-Town-Photo-by-Moyo-Jacob-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Minister-of-Environment-Josephine-Napwon-addressing-the-public-in-Torit-Town-Photo-by-Moyo-Jacob-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Minister-of-Environment-Josephine-Napwon-addressing-the-public-in-Torit-Town-Photo-by-Moyo-Jacob-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Minister-of-Environment-Josephine-Napwon-addressing-the-public-in-Torit-Town-Photo-by-Moyo-Jacob-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Minister of Environment Josephine Napwon, addressing the public in Torit Town (Photo by Moyo Jacob)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By\nMoyo Jacob<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Sudan Minister of Environment and Forestry,\nJosephine Napwon Cosmas, has warned individuals practicing logging of trees in\nEastern Equatoria State, to stop immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister stressed that her office in Juba had\nregistered several reports of forests being destroyed by some people for their\npersonal interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Napwon revealed that the individuals after logging,\nsmuggle the forest materials to the neighboring countries, which she termed as\nunacceptable practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On another development, Minister Napwon called on the\npeople of Eastern Equatoria State to practice intermarriages to usher peace and\nunity among communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She believes if communities embrace intermarriages, there\nwill be no more conflicts within the state as people will live harmoniously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Official calls on the new governor to discourage\nearly pregnancies among the teenage girls, and find a possible solution of\npromoting their education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Napwon has also warned politicians against\nencouraging inter-communal conflicts for their personal interests. \u201cNo one will\ntake arms to fight the people of Eastern Equatoria State,\u201d she warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Josephine Napwon urged Governor Lobong to include women\nin his administration, to ensure the fulfilment of the President\u2019s order for\nthe consideration of 35% affirmative action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Napwon also advises the governor to consider youth, whom\nshe believes have all the energy needed to serve the State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Moyo Jacob South Sudan Minister of Environment and Forestry, Josephine Napwon Cosmas, has warned individuals practicing logging of trees in Eastern Equatoria State, to stop immediately. The minister stressed that her office in Juba had registered several reports of forests being destroyed by some people for their personal interests.<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/10\/environment-minister-warns-against-tree-logging\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national","category-news","category-politics","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3438,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions\/3438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}