Herdsmen write communities in Ogun out of fear of an impending attack

Following letters they got from people they described as killer herdsmen, residents of Asa, Agbon, Ibeku, and Oja-Odan communities in the Yewa-North Local Government Area of Ogun State are now fearful of potential assaults.

Reports say that the unknown people sent letters to people in the Ogun communities in Ogun State, threatening to break into their homes as a form of revenge.

The guys reportedly told the locals that they planned to attack the settlements shortly, according to the notice that was scrawled on the walls of the affected villages on Saturday.

In a letter written in both English and Hausa, the same herdsmen told the leaders of the community that they would arrive between December 2022 and January 2023.

“Pay attention! Pay attention! To all the communities on the list below: Asa, Agbon, Lbeku, Oja-odan, and its surroundings.

“You think you can slaughter our people, kill their cows, and take over all of their belongings so they can leave the property they purchased in Nigeria, the land of our fathers.” You believe you can get away with it. It’s about time we exacted our revenge.

The leaders of all the aforementioned villages should start preparing for the battle in December or January. The notice stated, “We are coming to recover our father’s property.”

When asked, the Ogun police officer in charge of public relations, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said that he had received the letter.

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Oyeyemi told the people in the area that the command was still committed to finding the people who did the attack alert.

“Well, I saw the letter that was allegedly written by a dubious organization. We think the letter was written by a group with no foundation. There is no detail that is too minute to be noted.

“We’re not ignoring it; we’re attempting to identify individuals responsible,” he said.

Obasanjopnews24 says that when farmers and herders fight, people have died in the towns that are affected.

Several people from the communities left their homes in the first quarter of 2021 to go to the nearby Benin Republic to avoid being killed by the herders.

The crisis reached its peak when a member of the Yoruba Nation went to Igua in Yewa North to get rid of some Fulani herders.

After Sunday’s Igboho, several enraged youths set fire to the Fulani village in the Igua area.

Some said ranchers attacked numerous communities in retaliation, killing people and torching homes.

Governor Dapo Abiodun and a few other northern governors had to step in to put the situation under control.