Between gold mining and building people!!!
By Hon Rotimi Makinde
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
As a politician I have always refrained myself from anything that has to do about minning in Ile ife and its environment.Not because I do not have the liver to comment or that I do not need money or lack the wherewithal to be involved but because I have also been a miner in my own way for long,many people do not know I am into mining of minds and recruiting good minds accross ife land and up to Modakeke, origbo and ifetedo for the purpose of my community and building the bridge, the synergy accross the constituency, political party lines and by extension busy constructing the stage that is going to be of greater in value than this gold that is given us the name we do not deserved in a matter of time .Of the four most common gold purity levels,I understand 10K is the most durable,but is it greater than intelectualism at it’s best, the answer is definitely negative, though 10 karate also has the lowest gold content. 14K is said to be slightly purer while also highly durable but it’s not also better than building good quality representatives to redefine our ways of life especially in ife politics.
Another of it is 18K gold, I understand it is the purest form of gold that’s typically used for engagement rings and other jewelry. But can it ever be comparable with good profile of personalities sound history of ife stool and personality that is acceptable beyond ife land. My father, a Sheik was never involved in gold, yet he achieved than many who ate in gold plates and those born in gold mansions… Incidentally, they all quitted this sinful world like a flash and ceased to exist and buried in like manner and their stories ended like what shall become me and you reading this pieces.Oloibiri is a town in Bayelsa state where this Oil that is dividing us further was first discovered. Today, the city is not as beautiful as Lagos or near in beauty compared to Iloko ijesha solely developed by a man born because of that community…Aiye a san.
You mind is like a gold mine, if you dig deep you will find something golden and the need for you to be generous to people around you. He who sees a gold bullion more valuable than a tree has surely an intelligence much less than a donkey’s!Best investment is the one who invest in people..The world is sitting on a gold mine but knows it not.Look to yourself; you’ve got a gold mine in you that must be exploited… Many of us had actually strike gold one way or the other by our birth but we are ignorance for we focus too much on gold mine of this world… Investing and promoting a good hand is by far richer than gold that has value.
My own gold is the fact that I was born by ife,for ife and I think positively about ile ife all the time and in all purposes as related to ile ife…
What about you.?
