After receiving threats from unknown individuals claiming to be killer herdsmen, residents of Asa, Agbon and Oja-Odan in the Yewa-North Local Government Area, Ogun State, are now living in fear.

Residents of the communities were reported to have received threats from unknown assailants, threatening to invade some strategic places in a reprisal attack.

The notice, which was pasted on the walls of the villages by the attackers on Saturday, Dec 17, 2022, informed residents about plans to attack the villages soon.

The letter was written in English and Hausa languages and the herdsmen informed leaders of the communities that they should be expecting them between December 2023 and January 2023.

"Attention! Attention!! Attention!! To all following communities; Asa, Agbon, lbeku, Oja-odan and its environs," the letter read.

“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.

Abimbola Oleyemi, spokesperson for the State Police Command confirmed that he had read the letter.

However, the PPRO assured communities that the command was committed to identifying those responsible for the 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.

The government should take this serious