Are you from a community in Ogun, the “Gateway State?” 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 made just to depend, survive and endure, but to prosper and manifest abundance to other people in Ogun, 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: Ogun was created in 1976 out of the former Western State, and has over 170 communities who are proud members of the large Yoruba ethnicity. Due to their proximity to the Nigerian border with Benin Republic, some of their communities extend relations across the border between Nigeria and Benin. These various groups in Ogun have different festivals and legends, which they can refine for arts, entertainment and sending their message to the world. Some of the cultural festivals celebrated in Ogun state include Agemo festival, Obinrin Ojowu festival, Egungun festival, Oro festival, Gelede festival, Ogun festival and Igunnuko Masquerade. They have successfully developed several industries like the beer, tyre, ceramics, clay bricks, carpet, and clothing industries.
HUMAN RESOURCES: based on the 2008 INEC register, Ogun has a population of about 3.7 million hard-working people. And some prominent people from Ogun who can influence this socio-industrial liberation process and prosperity for Ogun people include: Akinwumi Adesina, Anthony Joshua, Debo Adedayo, Remi Tinubu, Wole Soyinka, Olusegun Obasanjo, Ayo Adebanjo, Mike Adenuga, Taiwo Afolabi, Oba Otudeko, Abdulwasiu Sowami, Gbenga Daniel, Adegunwa, Segun Osoba, Suleiman Adebola, Suleiman Olatunji, Kehinde Alabi, Remi Adebayo, Adekunle Adeyemi and Samuel Oladipo
NATURAL RESOURCES: Ogun covers about 16,406square kilometers of land and has heavy annual rainfalls. Most of the communities have vast and arable land to support various types of agriculture like rice, maize, cassava, yam and banana, cocoa, kola-nut, rubber, palm, timber. In addition to that, various communities in Ogun have minerals like kaolin, feldspar, silica, mica, clay, phosphate, gypsum, limestone, quartz, tar sand, chalk and gravels. Some of the many tourist attractions in the state include Olumo Rock, Obute-Oni Tourist Beach, Birikisu Sungbo Shrine, Ancient Palace of the Alake of Egbaland, Ogunde Threatre Centre, Saam Health Farm, Idiroko, Isara-Remo Holiday Resort, Centenary Hall, Abeokuta, and Adire Market Itoko.
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 3.7 million people and vast arable land, Ogun has and can produce high level actors, 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, and their huge leather production that can drive the economy through fashion, sports equipment, tools, even vehicle interiors, different communities in Ogun can also make technical products based on the mineral resources in their lands, such as: Iron, kaolin, feldspar, silica, mica, clay, phosphate, gypsum, limestone, quartz, tar sand, chalk and gravels.
Iron ore: for steel, pan.
Limestone, gypsum, chalk and clay: for cement, paperboard and plaster.
Kaolin: for film formation, fibre extension, polymer extension and reinforcement, chemical composition, carrier (pesticides and pharmaceuticals) adsorbent, diluent and polishing agent for teeth, automobiles, soft-metals like gold and silver.
Feldspar and gravels: for making tiles, furniture finishing, building rocks, paving stones, monuments, slabs, gemstones.
Silica Sand: for making glass
Phosphate: used in food, detergents, personal hygiene and construction.
Quartz: used for roofing tiles, flooring, stair-steps, countertops, roads for construction, silicon carbide
Tar Sand: used in detergents, cosmetics, toothpaste, solar panels, silicon chips, paints, chemicals and buildings
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.
