How Funke Adesiyan’s Watermelon Farm Was Destroyed By Fulani Herdsmen

Funke Adesiyan

 Funke Adesiyan narrates her experience with the herdsmen who went into her watermelon farm land which was due for cultivation and destroyed it.
Read her story below
“I remember this day in 2016. Three months prior, I’d just acquired 5 hectares of land at Ijebu Omu for watermelon farming. I was in such a high spirit looking forward to planting the new hybrid seedlings that had just surfaced.
I was sleeping in a room apartment I rented in the village so I could be closer to my farmland. We went to work, cleared the land, sunk the borehole, layed the pipes for irrigation so that water can be sufficient as watermelon feeds hugely on water and environment.


We planted. I left the farm maintenance to the farm manager. I was so tired that I needed to take a holiday so bad. But Ranti, my friend who just struck a deal with a Nigerian-Indian company who needed tomato suppliers who would be consistent was waiting.
So we headed to Iseyin from Ijebu to see the expansion on our Tomato farm. I stopped at Ibadan on my way from Iseyin to have a drink and my favourite Amala with my constituents at Turaya in Yemetu.
On getting to Lagos, I had only 5 days to prepare for my China trip as my partners from Iran and Pakistan wanted us to tour Hunan, a province popular for its tea cultivation.
As a “soji girl” that I am, I exploit all money making avenues around me. I needed to shop for milk and sardines that I would sell in China to cover my hotel bills. (Ogbon lo gba)
So I spent one whole month in China from Shanghai to Yiwu to Hunan to Sixuan to Pinyin to Hanzhou and finally Guangzhou where I met my beautiful Abuja babe, Mobola.
I was tired and drained mentally and physically. I had a week stop-over in Dubai which I had to cancel because I just wanted to be in the strong embrace of my #ejika-the best man any woman can ask for.GOSSIP ABOUT JAIYEORIE TO THE NEXT PERSON Tell A Friend about Jaiyeorie FOLLOW Instagram - Jaiyeorie Facebook - jaiyeorie Weddings - jaiyeorieweddings Advertise/ send gist to us - jaiyenews@gmail.com ... spill TEA Easy on Shade #jaiyeorie