Are you from a community in Edo state, “Heartbeat 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 neighboring communities 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 Edo, 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: Edo state is the remaining territory of the old Bendel state after the Delta state was carved out in 1991, and has 5 main ethnic groups, Edo (Bini), Esan, Afemai, Owan, and Akoko Edo, which are spread over 150 communities. Most of the communities in Edo state trace their origin to the Bini Kingdom, whose first traditional head, Oba of Benin, was said to be a descendant of Oduduwa. Edo communities are very rich in culture, arts and crafts, and 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.
HUMAN RESOURCES: based on recent estimates, Edo has a population of 2.2 million very industrious people. And some of the prominent people from Edo state who can contribute to the socio-industrial liberation and prosperity of Edo people: Chris Oyakhilome, Ewuare II, Charles Novia, Gabriel Igbinedion, Godwin Obaseki, Rema, Osayuki Godwin Oshodin, et al.
NATURAL RESOURCES: Edo covers about 19,639 square kilometers. And most of the communities have heavy annual rainfall and arable land that can support various types of agriculture like plantain, pineapple, banana, yam, oil palm, maize, timber, cocoa and rubber.
Also various communities have large deposits of quartzite, marble, gypsum, limestone, lignite, gold, oil and gas.
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, Edo 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 Edo can also make technical products based on the mineral resources in their lands, such as:
CRUDE OIL AND GAS – for petroleum products like gasoline, diesel, heating oil, jet-fuel, petrochemical feedstock, fuel, waxes, lubricating oils, asphalt, and other chemicals.
LIMESTONE and GYPSUM– wall board, plaster and cement.
COAL (LIGNITE): for generating electricity, and in synthetic natural gas generation, fertilizer production and home-heating.
QUARTZITE: is a light-colored, hard metamorphic rock, which forms from sandstone. It is a decorative stone used for roofing tiles, flooring, stair-steps, countertops, roads for construction, silicon carbide
MARBLE: for tiles, building stones and sculptures.
GOLD: is mined from rocks and is used in making jewelleries (50%), Electronics (37%), official coins (8%) and others (5%)
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.
