AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT – Think Tank

• Mechanized Farming with Zimbabwe Expertise and Research – Designate an area the size of Kansas if you need to, for large scale mechanized  farming, wholly operated by the experience of world class Zimbabwean farmers. These are people that have the best farming expertise in the world and can employ thousands of our people with well paying, highly skilled, farming and animal husbandry jobs. 
  
  
• The farms would have a mission of packaging and exporting food to generate revenue. The State would literally be the breadbasket of the region, exporting food to Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and other States in the federation. 
  
  
• The farms would be independent of government, codified by law, and therefore eligible for funding and partnerships from outside agencies.
  
• The farms would be affiliated with the department of agricultural science at the major universities in the region.
  
  
• Education and research would be a key tenant of the farm’s mission statement
  
  
• Exotic flowers would be cultivated year-round in commercial quantities as an alternative to going to South Africa to get them as they do today.

RECREATIONAL CENTERS – Infrastructure Think Tank

• Fitness Facilities – A healthier population is a happy population. Establish state of the art recreational facilities in each of the ten (10) federal constituencies on a pilot basis
  
  
• Then, deducting money at source, fund at least one state of the art facility in each
  
  
• local government area of each State in the region.
  
  
• Funds for maintenance would be appropriated one year in advance and placed in an account operated by an impartial third party or escrow account.
  
  
• Inspections of each facility would occur once a month, and facilities with a passing grade on cleanliness, would receive additional funding and bonuses for the management team
  

TRANSPORTATION -– Infrastructure Think Tank

• High Speed Rail – Create a rail network linking the major cities in the region. I should be able to go from Uyo to Port Harcourt to Durban by train in 45 minutes, or Calabar to Benin to Dakar in less 90 minutes.
  
  
• This eases traffic congestion on the roads and minimizes the risk of accidents
  
  
• It enables economic activity at the train stations and towns along the way
  
  
• It creates employment opportunities
  
  
• It is a more efficient, cheaper means of transportation.
  
  
• Enable our engineering graduates to solve flooding, sewage, and construction problems
  

Public Toilets – Infrastructure Think Tank

• Clean public toilets should be mandated in every town in the region, with each one being spaced 2 km apart, like in Kigali. Bonuses and incentives will be provided to the workers who keep them clean.
  
  
• Basic things such as tissue paper, soap, paper towels and hand sanitizer will be available free of charge. If any of those items is lacking at any time, the person or persons in charge of that bathroom will be summarily dismissed, and possibly flogged in public. The public must have confidence in in their public bathrooms as safe, healthy place to do your thing in comfort and a clean environment. The bathrooms will have a baby changing stations, and there will be an area for nursing mothers to breastfeed their children in a decent, dignified way, versus the current practice now of breastfeeding in public.
  
  
• Any person caught urinating in public, day or night, will be fined N500,000 for a first offence, plus 15 lashes in public. There should be no reason to pee in the gutter when you have clean public bathrooms.

Rest Areas – Infrastructure Think Tank

• There must be a rest area every 50 km on regional roads. These rest areas will be clean and safe, with enough security in the area such that you can even sleep in your car without worry if you desire. The rest areas will have decent places to eat and discard rubbish. This will improve the travel experience of the people on long journeys and eliminate the need to go to the bathroom in the bush on the roadside.

SOLUTION FOR SANITATION – Environment Think Tank

• Pay for Trash – The government should have trash centers, where they pay people by the pound/kilogram, for bringing in trash off the street. Since our people are highly motivated by money, it is likely the streets of major cities in the region will be clean due to this incentive. Imagine someone unemployed who knows he can make a quick buck by cleaning the streets. You will find that people will be fighting other people to collect trash from the streets due to financial incentives.
  
  
• Our people are motivated by money, so this simultaneously creates a mass network of trash collectors who are also gentrifying the cities and towns.
  End Street Vending
  
  
• All vending and street hawking will be done in designated commercial areas. This will keep the streets well maintained and open for tourism and other attractions.
  
  
• No over-crowding

Manufacturing Think Tank

• Open a Food manufacturing company where our soup varieties are prepared (per bowl), packaged for local and international consumption. The supply chain created will hire thousands of people
  
  
• Manufacturing anything that we consume. Negotiate to reduce foreign import footprint to spur local chain or negotiate for a 5-10% foreign import local production

Health Think Tank

• Open the best bio lab in the region (to be responsible for anything blood, vaccines, and coming up with solutions to local health issues)

Education Think Tank

• Advocate for empirical learning
  
  
• Perhaps open a 20 student education development center to groom high tech children for advanced applications
  
  
• Compete globally in STEM competion, etc. 
  
  
• Etc

Culture Think Tank

• Open Museums in the region to document artifacts and culture
  
  
• Adopt pidgin English as the general linqua franca in all regions or setup a panel to introduce an original language based on unique characters indigenous to Pan-Africans and Africans. No English characters!
  
  
• Award cultural excellence
  
  
• Recreate FESTAC 77. Make it bigger and better