Are you from a community in Ondo, the “Sunshine State?” Do you know that your people can build more socio-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 Ondo, 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: Ondo was created in 1976 out of the former Western State. It has two major ethnic groups which are the Yoruba and Ijaw, who are spread across over 150 communities. The Yoruba group in Ondo state are further divided into several subgroups like the Idanre, Akoko, Akure, Ondo, Owo and Ikale peoples. Hence, the main languages spoken in Ondo are Yoruba, Ijaw and English language. The communities in Ondo state have various 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, Ondo has a population of about 2.3 million hard-working people. And some prominent people from Ondo who can influence this socio-industrial liberation process and prosperity for Ondo people include: Omotola Jalade Ekainde, Jimoh Ibrahim, Ayo Makun, King Sunny Ade, Yemi Alade, Olusegun Mimiko, Ireti Doyle, Gani Adams, Funke Opeke, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, Segun Abraham, Jumoke Akindele, Dele Fajemirokun, Fredrick Obateru Akinruntan, Rufus Folusho Giwa, Michael Ade-Ojo, Otunba Dele Ologbese, Sunday Oljide, Bode Ayorinde, Kolawole Akinmosun and others.
NATURAL RESOURCES: Ondo covers about 15,000 square kilometers of land and has heavy annual rainfall. Most of the communities have vast and arable land for yam, cassava, plantain, banana, cocoa, kola-nut, oil palm, rubber and timber, and for livestock farming of ram, sheep, goats and poultry. In addition to that, various communities in Ondo have minerals like bitumen, marble, gold, gemstone, clay, diorite, lignite, oil and others.
POTENTIALS FOR THESE RESOURCES WITH THE ACTIVATION OF PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS IN NIGERIA
CULTURAL: having different communities, when private property rights is established, 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 2.3 million people and vast arable land, Ondo 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 various individuals and communities in Ondo can also make technical products based on the mineral resources in their lands, such as: bitumen, marble, gold, gemstone, clay, diorite, lignite, oil.
Gold: used in making jewelleries (50%), Electronics (37%), official coins (8%) and others (5%).
Bitumen: used in construction industry for paving roads and roofing. It is also suitable in other applications like agriculture, hydraulics and erosion-control, railways, mastic floorings for recreation and factories, tank foundation, joint-filling material, dump-proof for masonry
Iron ore: for steel and pan.
Gemstones: for decorations
Clay: in making cement
Diorite: used in construction
Lignite (Coal): for generating electricity and in synthetic natural gas generation, fertilizer production and home-heating
Crude Oil: for gasoline, diesel, fuel, heating oil, jet-fuel, petrochemical feedstock, waxes, lubricating oils, asphalt, and other chemicals
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.
