Are you from a community in Delta state, “Big Heart of the Nation”? Do you think your people can achieve more social or industrial excellence if they have the liberty to own and control their lands, resources and socio-industrial destiny?
Today, you are sent to take the gospel of intercultural liberty to your community and their neighbors for them to prepare to manifest the greatness that God put in each community at the coming Tour of Liberty. This intercultural liberty is the belief that:
“there is something great in every community and culture, and so, they all deserve the liberty to own, modify and use their cultural, human and natural resources to prosper and to manifest their greatness to their communities, nations, continent and the world. And that the four institutions of public regulation (government, religion, academia and mass media) are only made to support these communities and their members to manifest their greatness.”
So, your people are not made to depend, survive and endure, but to prosper and manifest their abundant light to other people in Delta, Nigeria, Africa and the world. This Tour of Liberty will lead to the discussion and creation of private property rights in a Restart National Conference for each community or individual to own and control their lands and resources (cultural, human and natural resources). For, despite government beautification of the place, as long as the communities and individuals lack control of their lands and resources for socio-industrial growth, they will remain under neo-colonial bondage.
CULTURAL RESOURCES: Delta state was created from the old Bendel state in 1991, and contains 5 major ethnic groups, which include Igbo, Itsekiri, Urhobo, Ijaw and Isoko, which are spread across over 170 communities. Delta communities have several myths, festivals, stories and legends, which they can refine and use for arts, entertainment and sending their message to the world. Some of these communities have tourist sites like Koko Port, Olu of Warri’s Palace, ATP Timber and Plywood factory, Chief Nana’s Palace, and Escravos Beach. Their cultural festivals include Itsekiri Juju festival and Agbasa juju festival.
HUMAN RESOURCES: based on 2008 INEC register, Delta has a population of 4.1 million generous and bold people. And some prominent people from Delta state who can contribute to the socio-industrial liberation and prosperity of Delta people include: Jim Ovia, Tony Elumelu, James Ibori, Ned Nwoko, Jay-Jay Okocha, Ayo Oritsejafor, Ogiame Atuwase III and Richard Mofe-Damijo.
NATURAL RESOURCES:
Delta covers about 17,698 square kilometers. And most of the communities have heavy annual rainfall and vast arable land that can support various types of agriculture like plantain, banana, rubber, oil palm, maize, rice, yam, cassava and timber. Also various communities have big deposits of Oil and gas, kaolin, laterite, clay, gravel, silica sand, bauxite and granite.
Potentials for these resources with the activation of private property rights in Nigeria
CULTURAL:
since they have different communities, they can develop several movies, books, stories, games, and arts to project their story of harmonizing their differences to manifest their intercultural liberty.
HUMAN:
With their generous and bold industrial disposition, Delta communities have and can still produce high level engineers, scholars, doctors, bankers, athletes and professionals in every sector of the economy.
NATURAL RESOURCES:
apart from various foods that they can massively produce when they fully engage in mechanized farming, different communities in Anambra can also make technical products based on the mineral resources in their lands, such as: Oil and gas, kaolin, laterite, clay, gravel, silica sand, bauxite and granite.
OIL AND GAS – for petroleum products like gasoline, diesel, heating oil, jet-fuel, petrochemical feedstock, fuel, waxes, lubricating oils, asphalt, and other chemicals.
KAOLIN – for film formation, fibre extension, polymer extension, chemical composition, carrier (pesticides and pharmaceuticals) adsorbent, diluent and polishing agent for teeth, automobiles, soft-metals like gold and silver.
SAND – used in detergents, cosmetics, toothpaste, solar panels, silicon chips, paints, chemicals and mostly buildings. In chemical industry, industrial sand is the primary component in chemicals used to make household cleaners and fiber optics. As foundry in metal industry, it is used together with clay-moulds to cast metals into desired shapes. In construction, it is used for flooring, mortars, cements, stucco, roofing shingles, skid-resistant surfaces and asphalt. In oil and gas recovery, it is pumped down holes in deep well applications to prop open rock fissures and increase the flow rate of natural gas or oil.
CLAY – in making cement
BAUXITE – for aluminium in vehicles, electronics, construction, utensils and is the main material in making airplane. It is also used in other industries for chemicals, refractory, abrasive, cement, steel, petrol, rubber, plastic, paint and cosmetics, then in construction, paper-making, water purifying and petrol-refining. It is soft and red, and rich in alumina.
GRANITE – for tiles, furniture finishing, building rocks, paving stones, monuments, slabs, gemstones, etc
When communities and individuals take control of their lands and resources, then they can partner with various groups and well-regulated investors to properly use these resources to prosper and manifest their abundance.
