(Part 2) The tale continues
…all he wanted and still wants is for my father to live in the village with him but my father no dey gree for am (but my father never accepted my grandpa’s offer). My father decided not to continue visiting them at the village, then my dad relocated us to Anambra state, where we live till date. But before we relocated to Anambra, my dad had a serious discussion with his father concerning the land properties.
My dad asked him to show him all his land properties so he could survey and document them, but my grandfather disagreed. He said if my dad was ready to know all his land properties that my father should come back home but my father disagreed too.
Now my dad has five 3 boys and 2 girls and some of my uncles are now married with children. After my junior WAEC, I went to Lagos State to serve as an apprentice for 5yrs. After 5yrs my boss gave me 250,000 and goods worth 150,000 (I was expecting more of those settlements because I know how I had hustled for him handling both of his shops) but that didn’t stop me from hustling harder than ever before. I doubled my hustle, I started a business for my mum and also training my younger ones in school.
“How do I share lands when I don’t know where they are? How can I share property while you, our father is still alive?”
He asked grandpa to take him to all the places he has lands but grandfather no gree open up(refused to open up). He said since my father moved to Anambra state that he has learned the footsteps of Anambra people; that they like to sell their fathers’ lands and that’s why my dad is now asking him to show dad all his land properties for him to sell them completely. Grandpa complained that his own father didn’t sell any of his lands when he was alive and he’s not going to sell the lands his father left for him before he died.
Two of my grandfather’s wives and the children of the second wife are all against my father, they said my father wants to kill grandpa so he will sell all his lands. Their mentality and reasoning is too low. But my father tried everything to convince him to give him his own share of the land or for my grandpa to sell some of the lands at the site and use the money to build a good house, but grandpa no gree Cha Cha (refused completely).
So I told my father to forget everything concerning the lands. I told him that God will surely make a way for me and with time my business will stand again and I will buy land at another place. But my dad sef no gree (refused).
I’m confused right now because the situation is now bringing boundaries and hatred between me and my uncles as I’m the only adult grandchild. My dad said the reason he refuses to stay in the village with his father is because he’s alone.
He said: “I don’t have a mother, brother or sister who will stand for me, had it been I had started with my father in the village as he wanted, I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to marry your mother and have somebody like you and your siblings today. They would have killed me a long time ago because I’m all alone but God pass them (God is better than them) and gave me the wisdom to take the decision I took. My father is a dangerous man”
This is my story and I truly need your advice!
