A comprehensive review of the proposed 7-Channel Ijesaland Sustainable Development Roadmap, presented by Asiwaju Yinka Fasuyi, has described the document as visionary, culturally rooted, and politically unifying, offering a bold and structured pathway for the future of Ijesaland.
The roadmap is anchored on the royal leadership of His Imperial Majesty, Clement Adesuyi Haastrup, and seeks to reposition Ijesaland through an integrated, results-based development framework spanning agriculture, industrialisation, social infrastructure, housing, grassroots governance, international partnerships, and citizen-led initiatives.
Observers say the proposal represents a deliberate effort to institutionalise long-term development planning across Ijesaland’s six local government areas.
Strong Vision and Institutional Clarity
Analysts have commended the roadmap’s structure, particularly its adoption of a Results-Based Management (RBM) model with clearly defined objectives, timelines, outputs, monitoring indicators, and assigned responsibilities.
Implementation roles are carefully mapped out across structured institutions including the Ijesa Development Council (IDC) and the Ijesa Community Development Assembly (ICDA), alongside ward-level structures, community development associations, diaspora networks, and private sector actors.
“This framework is not fragmented,” one development analyst noted. “It deliberately connects agriculture to industrialisation, health to productivity, and culture to development financing.”
The layered institutional design is widely regarded as one of the document’s strongest pillars, promoting coordination, accountability, and shared ownership.
Agriculture and Industrialisation as Economic Catalysts
Channel One focuses on transforming agriculture into a modern, commercially viable sector capable of increasing productivity and incomes by at least 40 percent within five years. Mechanisation, value-chain hubs, youth agripreneurship, and strategic partnerships form the backbone of this initiative.
Channel Two aims to establish three to five medium-to-large scale industries within three years under IDC coordination. The roadmap outlines feasibility studies, industrial zoning, land acquisition, and investor engagement in priority sectors such as agro-processing and light manufacturing.
Stakeholders agree that with coordinated strategy and strong investor engagement, these two channels could serve as the economic engine of the entire framework.
Social Infrastructure and Health Insurance Expansion
Through the ICDA, the roadmap proposes broad expansion of social infrastructure across 64 wards. A key pillar is the strengthening of the Ijesa Community Health Insurance Scheme, especially for the elderly and vulnerable.
While the ambition is high, experts suggest aligning specific health targets with realistic national and global benchmarks to ensure credibility and sustainability. The overall commitment to elder care and inclusive health protection, however, has been widely praised.
Beyond the Ijesa Community Health Insurance Scheme for elders, the Ijesa Community Development Assembly (ICDA) has implemented several strategic empowerment initiatives aimed at strengthening human capital and economic resilience across Ijesaland.
These include youth empowerment programmes facilitated through the Leventis Foundation Agricultural Training Programme, ICDA–RLG ICT Training initiatives, and coordinated enrollment support for qualified candidates into Federal Technical Colleges. Collectively, these interventions are designed to equip young people with practical agricultural, digital, and technical skills that enhance employability and entrepreneurship.
Another major intervention currently underway is the structured registration of all 64 wards in Ijesaland into the proposed Ijesaland Cooperative Society framework. This process is aimed at creating an organised platform for grassroots economic empowerment, financial inclusion, and coordinated access to development financing.
Highlighting landmark projects delivered through ICDA contributions, the review referenced the introduction of the Ijesa Development Fund (IDF) which is a key component of the ICDA Sustainable Development in Ijesaland that allows every community to identify its own peculiar development needs and execute same within the IDF Financial Framework; the ultra-modern Owa Obokun Adimula Palace; the Ijesaland Geriatric Centre; scholarship schemes for indigent students and sustained agricultural training initiatives as practical demonstrations of community-driven development under the royal leadership of Owa Clement Adesuyi Haastrup, Ajimoko III.
It further disclosed ongoing economic empowerment efforts, notably a ₦100 million revolving loan scheme for cooperative societies facilitated through the Ministry of Cooperative and Empowerment. The initiative is supported by a ₦68 million counterpart contribution from ICDA and ₦32 million from the Owa Obokun. According to him, Ijesaland stands as the first beneficiary of the scheme in Osun State, with wards expected to access the facility upon completion of their cooperative registration.
Together, these interventions reflect a coordinated approach to social protection, youth capacity building, institutional strengthening, and grassroots economic transformation across Ijesaland.
Iwude Ijesa Festival as a Development Accountability Platform
In an innovative move, the roadmap proposes transforming the Annual Iwude Ijesa Unity Festival into a structured development accountability platform. Ijesa societies and clubs would be encouraged to deliver at least one tangible community project annually — including school rehabilitation, health centre upgrades, rural road improvements, solar electrification, and water provision.
Observers describe this cultural-to-development linkage as strategically brilliant, especially if supported by transparent verification and public reporting mechanisms.
Housing and Grassroots Governance
Channel Seven proposes estate housing projects across Atakumosa East, Atakumosa West, Obokun, and Oriade to stimulate employment and infrastructure growth beyond Ilesa metropolis.
At the grassroots level, the roadmap encourages ward meetings, sanitation drives, community-based security collaboration, and citizen-led initiatives aimed at increasing civic participation by 50 percent within five years.
Strengthening the Financial and Strategic Framework
Rather than viewing financial structuring as a weakness, analysts now emphasise it as the next strategic phase of the roadmap.
The various technical teams and Ijesa egg-heads identified as drivers of each of the seven channels — under the global leadership of the Owa Obokun Adimula — are expected to further strategise and collaboratively fill existing financial and operational gaps.
Key areas for coordinated action include:
Developing a consolidated five-year financial blueprint
Establishing a Development Delivery and Monitoring Unit
Securing anchor industrial investors
Designing structured housing finance models
Publishing periodic performance dashboards
With the calibre of professionals, diaspora experts, institutional leaders, and development-minded stakeholders already referenced in the framework, many believe Ijesaland possesses the intellectual and strategic capacity required to translate vision into bankable implementation.
Verdict: A Strong Foundation Ready for Strategic Consolidation
The 7-Channel Ijesaland Sustainable Development Roadmap stands as an ambitious, culturally grounded, and politically unifying blueprint. Its clarity of vision and institutional architecture provide a solid foundation.
The next step is coordinated strategic alignment — ensuring that financial engineering, implementation sequencing, and measurable benchmarks are refined by the designated teams to deliver the anticipated transformational results.
With disciplined execution and collective ownership, the roadmap holds the potential to significantly reposition Ijesaland within the next decade.
Call for an Ijesaland Stakeholders Assembly
In light of the strategic importance of this proposal, all traditional institutions, political leaders, community development associations, youth groups, women’s organisations, diaspora networks, private sector actors, and professional bodies are encouraged to convene a broad-based Ijesaland Stakeholders Assembly.
Such an assembly will provide a unified platform to strengthen the financial framework, harmonise strategies, mobilise resources, and institutionalise transparent monitoring mechanisms.
The responsibility is collective.
The vision is shared.
The moment for strategic consolidation and coordinated execution is now.
Welcome to the Details of the 7-Channel Roadmap as attached below 👇
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