Tension has gripped communities in Yewa-North Local Government Area of Ogun State after suspected criminal herders wrote them of their plan to launch attacks.
According to Channels Television, Ogun State Police Command, on Monday, confirmed the incident but assured residents of adequate protection.
Media reports say the criminal herders dispatched letters to the residents of Asa, Agbon, Ibeku and Oja-Odan communities, all in the Yewa-North Local Government Area of the state, in English and Hausa languages.
The letter posted on a few walls in the community has generated fear among the locals as some are already considering relocation from their communities.
In the letter, the criminal herders indicated that the planned attacks would occur between December 2022 and January 2023.
“Attention! Attention!! Attention!! to all following communities; Asa, Agbon, lbeku, Oja-odan and its environs,” the letter reads.
“You think you can send away our people from the land they bought in Nigeria, our fatherland? You kill our people; you kill their cows; you take over all their properties; you think you can go scot-free. It’s high time we came for revenge.”
“All the above-mentioned communities’ leaders should prepare for the war between December and January. We are coming to take back our fathers’ properties.”
When contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the development.
Oyeyemi, however, assured the concerned communities of the command’s commitment to unravelling those behind the act.
“I saw the letter purportedly written by a baseless group. We believe it is a baseless group that wrote the letter. We are not losing any sleep because no information is too small to take note of. We are not neglecting it. We are working on it to unravel those behind it,” he said.