Are you from a community in Nasarawa, the “HOME OF SOLID MINERALS?” Do you know that your people can build more social or industrial excellence if they get 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 oncoming 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.”
Your people are not created merely to depend, survive and endure, but to prosper and manifest their prosperity in Nigeria, Africa and the world. The Tour of Liberty leads to the institution of private property rights in a Restart National Conference for individuals and communities to own and control their lands and resources. For, despite the external beautifications, 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: Nasarawa was created in 1996. Nasarawa state has various ethnicities like Alago, Eggon, Gwandara, Mada, Tiv, Aguta, Basa, Ebira, Gbagyi, Hausa, Kanuri, Migili and other ethnic groups that are spread across over 200 communities. Apart from their various tribal languages, they generally speak English language. These various groups in Nasarawa have many festivals and legends, which they can refine for arts, entertainment and sending their message to the world.
HUMAN RESOURCES: based on the 2008 INEC register, Nasarawa has a population of about 1.9 million people. And some prominent people from Nasarawa who can influence this socio-industrial liberation process and prosperity for Nasarawa people include: Labaran Maku, Lazarus Angbazo, Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, Abdullahi Sule, Abdullahi Adamu, Suleiman Adokwe, Patricak Akwashiki, Ibrahim Kpotun Idris, Sa’adatu Hassan Liman, Bala Mande and Silas Ali Agara.
NATURAL RESOURCES: Nasarawa covers about 26,789 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 maize, millet, tomatoes, groundnut cotton, kola nuts, tobacco and palm as cash crops. In addition to that, various communities in Nasarawa have minerals like gold, coal, lithium, marble, barite, gemstones, salt, and tin-columbite-tantalite, clay, iron ore, lead-zinc, limestone and silica sand.
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 1.9million people and vast arable land, Nasarawa can produce high level farmers, advocates, 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, different communities in Nasarawa can also make technical products based on the mineral resources in their lands, such as:
Gold: used in making jewelleries (50%), Electronics (37%), official coins (8%) and others (5%).
Iron ore, tine, columbite and tantalite: for steel, pan and cables.
Lead: for batteries, cable sheaths, machinery manufacturing, shipbuilding, light industry, lead oxide, radiation protection and other industries
Zinc: for medicines and is the fourth most consumed metal in the world after iron, aluminium and copper, and is used with copper to form brass and with other metals to form materials in automobiles, electrical components, and household fixtures.
Limestone and clay: for cement
Silica: for making glass
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.
