Are you from a community in Oyo, the “Pace setter?” Do you believe 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.”
Hence, your people are not made just to depend, survive and endure, but to prosper and manifest abundance to other people in Oyo, 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: Alongside Ogun and Ondo, Oyo was one of the three states that were created out of the former Western State of Nigeria in 1976. Oyo state has over 200 ethnic communities who are all proud members of the big Yoruba ethnic group. The state capital, Ibadan, is known as the largest indigenous city in Sub-Saharan Africa. Other towns include Oyo, Ogbomosho, Iseyin, Kisi, Okeho, Saki, Eruwa, Lanlate, and Igbo Ora. These various communities in Oyo have different 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, Oyo has a population of about 5.6million people. Some prominent people from Oyo who can influence this socio-industrial liberation process for Oyo people include: Seyi Makinde, Oba Rasheed Adewolu Ladoja, Francis Wale Oke, Adebayo Adewusi, Saheed Balogun, Afeez Oyetoro, Lepacious Bose, Kola Daisi, Adebayo Adelabu, Sunday Igboho, Adebutu Adebayo, Bimbo Akintola and many others.
NATURAL RESOURCES: Oyo covers about 28,249 square kilometers of land and has moderate annual rainfall. Most of the communities have vast arable land yam, millet, maize, rice, cassava, plantain, banana, cocoa, kola-nut, cashew, oil palm, rubber, timber, and for livestock as ram, goat, sheep and cattle. Also the state developed some government-owned farm settlements lat Ipapo, Ilora, Eruwa, Ogbomosho, Iresaadu, Ijaiye, Akufo and Lalupon, and cattle ranches at Saki, Fasola and Ibadan, as well as diary farm at Moniya.
The main tourist attractions in Ibadan include: Agodi Botanical Garden, Mapo Hall, Trans-Wonderland Amusement Park, Agodi Gardens, Ado-Awaye Suspended Lake, University of Ibadan Zoological Garden, Ido Cenotaph, Oke-Ogun National Park, Captain Bowers Tower, Cultural Center Mokola, Igbeti Hills, Old Oyo National Park, Alaafin of Oyo’s Palace, Calabash Carving, and Aso Oke Weaving, Iseyin.
In addition, various communities in Oyo have minerals like marble, clay, feldspar, kaolin, cassiterite, iron ore, aquamarine, dolomite, talc, quartz and granite.
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 5.6 million people and vast arable land, Oyo 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, different communities in Oyo can also make technical products based on the mineral resources in their lands, such as:
Kaolin: used 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.
Iron ore: for steel, pan and cables.
Dolomite: for making glass
marble: in buildings
Clay: for cement
Cassiterite: for tin
Aquamarine and Granite: in making tiles, furniture finishing, building rocks, paving stones, monuments, slabs, gemstones, etc.
Quartz: for roofing tiles, flooring, stair-steps, countertops, roads for construction, silicon carbide
Granite and feldspar: for making tiles, furniture finishing, building rocks, paving stones, monuments, slabs, gemstones
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.
