The Ondo State-based consultant firm, Klick Konnect Networks, has employed a set of 50 youths as monitoring officers of the government forest reserve in the state as part of its efforts towards reducing the high rate of unemployment and to boosting economy of the state.
Mr Sunday Olatigbe, the Principal Consultant to Klick Konnect Networks, while addressing the employees on Tuesday in Akure, said their duty was to monitor the activities of forest reserve users in other not to allow encroachers.
Olatigbe explained that the officers must make sure that nobody entered the government forest reserve without valid papers.
"You are not allowed to receive money from anyone and there should be no room for encroachment.
"You must do your job very well, be good ambassadors of the firm.
"You must not collect bribe and you should report any strange activities to the police," he said.
Olatigbe noted that the officers would soon be deployed to each local government area of the state.
Speaking in the same vein, Mr Adeoye Akeredolu, who spoke on behalf of the state Ministry of Natural Resources at the event, advised the newly recruited officers to use the opportunity well and ensure that they did not take laws into their hands.
Akeredolu, who also read out the ministry's rule and regulations to the officers, said the purpose why they were employed was to sanitise the reserve areas.
"You must not allowed encroachment from neighboring state, and that's why Klick Konnect Networks employed you in order to sanitise the reserve area.
" Anybody that wants to get milaina tree, teak and fishing activities must have valid papers from the Ministry of Natural Resources.
"Anyone caught without valid papers must be arrested and such person will be prosecuted accordingly.
" If government is happy, definitely, we are also going to be happy," he said.
It is recalled that that the consultant firm, had last week engaged over 7,000 farmers on cassava revolution programme across the 18 local government areas of the state.
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