Are you from a community in Kogi, “THE CONFLUENCE STATE?” Do you believe that your people can showcase their brilliance in achieving more soci0-industrial growth 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 at the coming Tour of Liberty starting in November. 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 just to depend, survive and endure, but to prosper and manifest abundance to other people in Kogi, Nigeria, Africa and the world. This Tour of Liberty will lead to discussion and institution 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 environment, as long as the communities and individuals lack control of their lands and resources for socio-industrial growth, they are still under neo-colonial bondage.
CULTURAL RESOURCES: Kogi was created in 1991 from kwara and Benue state. Kogi state contains various tribes mainly Okun, Bassa, Igala, Ebira and other ethnic groups that are spread across over 400 communities. Apart from their various tribal languages, they generally speak English language. They have a harmonious balance of both Christian and Islamic adherents.
HUMAN RESOURCES: based on the 2008 INEC register, Kogi has a population of 3.2 million people. And some prominent people from Kogi who can contribute to the socio-industrial liberation process and prosperity for Kogi people include: Aisha Yesufu, Mercy Johnson, Dino Melaye, Idris Wada, Natasha Akpoti, Jide Omokore, Thomas Etuh, Tajudeen Yusuf, Ahmed Usman Ododo, Ahmed Ogembe, John Ayeni and many others.
NATURAL RESOURCES: Kogi covers about 29,171 square kilometers of land and has wet and dry seasons. Most of the communities have vast and arable land to support various types of agriculture like coffee, cocoa, palm oil, cashew, peanuts, maize, cassava, yam, rice and melon.
Some communities contain tourist attractions like the Ogidi igneous rock mountains, the confluence of Rivers Niger and Benue, and the remains of Lord Lugard’s House in Lokoja.
In addition to that, various communities in Kogi have minerals like iron, limestone, coal, tin.
POTENTIALS FOR THESE RESOURCES WITH THE ACTIVATION OF PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS IN NIGERIA
CULTURAL: since they have different ethnic communities, they can develop movies, books, stories, games, and arts to project their story of harmonizing their differences to manifest their intercultural liberty.
HUMAN: with as much as 3.2 million people and vast arable land, Kogi has and can produce high level farmers, scholars, doctors, athletes and professionals in all sectors of the economy.
NATURAL RESOURCES: apart from various foods that they can massively produce when they fully engage in mechanized farming, and their huge leather production that can drive the economy through fashion, sports equipment, tools, even vehicle interiors, different communities in Kogi can also make technical products based on the mineral resources in their lands, such as:
Iron ore and tin: for making steel, pan and cables.
Limestone, Clay, Gypsum and marble: for cement
Gold: jewelleries (50%), Electronics (37%), official coins (8%) and others (5%).
Bauxite: for large-scale aluminium, which is then used in vehicles, electronics, construction, utensils and main constituent material in making aeroplane. It is also used in different industries for chemicals, refractory, abrasive, cement, steel, petrol, rubber, plastic, paint and cosmetics, then in construction, paper-making, water purifying and petrol-refining.
Bitumen: for paving roads, roofing and in agriculture, hydraulics and erosion-control, railways, mastic floorings for recreation and factories, tank foundation, joint-filling material, dump-proof for masonry
Crude Oil: gasoline, diesel, fuel, heating oil, jet-fuel, petrochemical feedstock, waxes, lubricating oils, asphalt, and other chemicals
Coal: for generating electricity and in synthetic natural gas generation, fertilizer production and home-heating.
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.
