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This is Wasimi Orile community’s response to the United Nations Millennium Goal Development Project for the eradication of hunger, poverty and disease in the world by 2015. This may serve as a MODEL for every poor community in Africa.
Wasimi Orile is a small village, one of once-thriving 33 villages, in Mosan Ward of Ogun State, Nigeria. It is located in the heart of dense vegetation one kilometre from Wasimi railway station settlement, off the new super-highway linking Lagos, Sango Otta and Abeokuta.
Through poverty, neglect and lack of any form of development by governments in the area only 19 of the villages still exist. 14 have become extinct, overgrown by dense vegetation.
Wasimi Orile is the first village into the ward. There is only one un-tarred road leading into this vast area of very fertile, rich land space.
This area is still ‘sleeping’ in the 19th Century. The people get all their drinking water from nearby streams. There is no electric power supply, no hospital and no police post. The migration from the villages to other urban settlements in and outside the State by the youths have resulted in the abandonment of agriculture, a dwindling rural population, dilapidated houses and impoverished people.
This shall be the pillar of development to which all the other projects will be anchored.
Wasimi Orile Community Development Investment Company (WOCDIC)
This is a registered investment company owned by all members of the community that subscribe to it. It will serve as the business arm of the community. It will study all investment projects introduced to the community and determine what roles and responsibilities community members shall play to ensure that they derive maximum benefit from it. It will create cooperatives amongst community members so that there is joint effort in projects for maximum yield and benefit.
Wasimi Orile Residential Estate Phase 1
This is a new layout on virgin land. It will be laid out for the purpose of a new, modern but still rural housing estate. The entire layout with be well beautified and all houses would meet a certain minimum standard and design. The estate will accept a certain number of persons from outside the community that may desire to set up country home here.
Land will be made easily and cheaply available. The community will be actively involved in construction aspects of the buildings as part of the benefits to them.
There is another larger designated area for the second phase of this development.
Wasimi Orile Creek Resort
This is a tourism resort principally designed to attract the elite and expatriates to the environment.
It will contain the following:
40 one-bedroom guest chalets
an 18-hole golf course
an outdoor restaurant
a health spa
a helipad
and an outdoor theatre
The guest house chalets shall be financed through time-share individual ownership, but run collectively as a business.
The golf course shall be a an exclusive collaboration with interested corporate sponsorships.
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