From Ikeja Auditor to Farmer: Answering My Family’s Call to the Soil (Part 3)
For years, I believed I had left farming behind. I worked as an auditor in air-conditioned offices on Toyin Street, Ikeja, focused on ledgers, financial statements and corporate life. Yet my family’s connection to the land remained strong. My grandfather, a retired police officer, built a sizeable local farm, while my grandmother also owned valuable family farmland. As a Yoruba man, I came to see that this heritage could not simply be ignored. My father had also invested in the dream. He bought a palm-oil processing machine because palm plantations were common in our area, but travel and military life put the plan on hold. After he passed away, the land and its unfinished possibilities began calling me back. This is the story of how I started moving from corporate auditing towards the soil and the farming legacy my family left behind.
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