Are you from a community in Ebonyi state, “Salt 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 message of intercultural liberty to your community and their neighbors for them to prepare to manifest the greatness that God put in each community and individual 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 Ebonyi, 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: Ebonyi state was carved out of Abakaliki division of Enugu state and the Afikpo division of Abia state in 1996, and has about 150 communities who are all part of the Igbo ethnic group. Ebonyi communities have different 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 several tourist attractions like Ogbaukwu caves and waterfalls, Agulu Lake, Ikenga Virgin Forest, Odinani Museum and Ogbunike caves.
HUMAN RESOURCES: based on recent estimates, Ebonyi has a population of 2.2 million very industrious people. And some of the prominent people from Ebonyi state who can contribute to the socio-industrial liberation and prosperity of Ebonyi people: Dave Umahi, Anyim Pius Anyim, Chris Abani, Sam Egwu, Chacha Eke.
NATURAL RESOURCES: Ebonyi covers about 5,535 square kilometers. And most of the communities have heavy annual rainfall and arable land that can support various types of agriculture like rice, yam, cocoyam, potatoes, maize, beans, cowpea, cassava, oil palm, cashew, cocoa and rubber. The Aboine river enables for fishing both on a subsistence and commercial scale, and they practice livestock farming in goats, pigs, chicken, cows, horses and pets. Some of the communities have forest reserves and sacred grooves that are very for ecotourism, like the Akanto game reserve, Umana-Afikpo Golden Sand Beach.
Also various communities have big deposits of petroleum, shale, coal, laterite, salt, zinc, lead, kaolin, limestone, gypsum, granite and clay (mostly untapped).
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 industrious disposition and natural resources, Ebonyi state has and can still produce high level farmers, managers, diplomats, engineers, scholars, doctors, bankers, writers 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 Ebonyi can also make technical products based on the mineral resources in their lands, such as: petroleum, shale, coal, laterite, salt, zinc, lead, kaolin, limestone, gypsum, granite and clay
CRUDE OIL – for petroleum products like gasoline, diesel, heating oil, jet-fuel, petrochemical feedstock, fuel, waxes, lubricating oils, asphalt, and other chemicals.
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.
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.
LIMESTONE, SHALE, GYPSUM and CLAY – wall board, plaster and cement.
COAL: for generating electricity, and in synthetic natural gas generation, fertilizer production and home-heating.
GRANITE: for tiles, furniture finishing, building rocks, paving stones, monuments, slabs, gemstones, etc.[1]
ZINC: for brass and medicals. It is the fourth most consumed metal in the world after iron, aluminium and copper. It is combined with copper to form brass and with other metals to form materials in automobiles, electrical components, and household fixtures.
LEAD: is widely used in batteries, cable sheaths, machinery manufacturing, shipbuilding, light industry, lead oxide, radiation protection and other industries.[2]
SALT – for food and chemical processing
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.
[1] Geology.com, uses of granite. www.geology.com/articles/granite.shtml retrieved 7th April, 2020
[2] Asian metal, Lead: uses. www.metalpedia.com.metal/lead/application.shtml retrieved 8th April 2020
