Must Read: The Abandoned Child - Season 1 - Episode 72

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Must Read: The Abandoned Child - Season 1 - Episode 72

My proposed wedding was to be the first Baba would sponsor as the grooms father and not as usual. He brought out an old custom of ours and told me that it is the father’s responsibility to sponsor the first son’s wedding. There was no need to argue with Baba because he still has that Nigerian police thing in him.




Aiye agbo! Orun a gba! The earth will hear! The heavens will concur! He kept boasting about the day of my wedding day. But in all of this, Baba was more interested in his grand children or sons as he preferred. I told him yemisi and I preferred a girl as our first but he insisted it must be a boy! He said I must not start like him. So we said okay.



My father had given me all the keys to his cars and every land document in his possession; he took me to his mechanized farm lands at Akure, Ado-Ekiti and Ibadan. His palm plantations, plantain plantations, Cocoa plantation, rubber, cotton, and cashew plantations, he introduced me to the managers as the new owner, his son and heir. Baba pays a total of two hundred and thirty seven workers wages on weekly and monthly basis yet most people in the village thought he was a stingy man. This man that looks so simple in the Village is actually a millionaire.



On the other hand, my step sisters were all inviting me to their homes. Each wanted to use me to brag to their friends as their last born and an Engineer for that matter. Luckily I am one guy that any one would like to flaunt as a younger brother because of my natural endowment and my academic achievement. For example my father cannot introduce me as an engineer to any one without telling them that I am an engineer with ‘first class’ he pronounces the ‘first class’ with emphasis, and the same goes with my sisters too.




I had problem adjusting to this new life. I had never being a family person so these guys were really encroaching in my space. I had my life planed out but my father is now planning my life for me too and he is too domineering. He was all over me.