Fear As Herdsmen Write Ogun Communities Over Planned Attack

Fear As Herdsmen Write Ogun Communities Over Planned Attack

Residents of Asa, Agbon, Ibeku, and Oja-Odan communities in Ogun State’s Yewa-North Local Government Area are now fearful of attacks after receiving letters from what they describe as killer herdsmen.

The unknown individuals were said to have written to residents of Ogun communities in Ogun state, threatening to invade their homes in retaliation.

According to a notice posted on the walls of the affected villages on Saturday, the men informed the residents of their intention to attack the villages soon.

The herdsmen informed community leaders in a letter written in English and Hausa that they would be arriving between December and January 2023.

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“Attention! Attention!! Attention!! To all following communities; Asa, Agbon, lbeku, Oja-odan and its environs.

“You think you can send away our people from the land they bought in Nigeria, our fathers land, 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 father’s property,” the notice read.

Contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer in Ogun, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed that he had seen the letter.

However, Oyeyemi assured the communities of the command’s commitment to unravel those behind the notice of attack.

“Well, I saw the letter purportedly written by a baseless group. We believe it is a baseless group that wrote the letter. 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.

Many residents of the communities fled to neighboring Benin Republic in the first quarter of 2021 to avoid being killed by the herdsmen.

The crisis reached a head when a Yoruba Nation agitator went to Igua in Yewa North to evict some Fulani herders.

Some enraged youths set fire to the Fulani settlement in the Igua area after Sunday Igboho’s.

In retaliation, some suspected herders attacked many villages, killing and torching homes.

The intervention of Governor Dapo Abiodun and other northern governors was required to bring the situation under control.