by Rachel Ogbu

Residents in Lambe, Ogun State, were thrown aback after they woke up one day to find letters from Nigerian robbers to asking them for a warm welcome when they strike in their community soon.

The letters which was pasted on walls and in the streets on Akin Akindele, Community Road and Jelili Popoola Streets was written in the Nigerian Yoruba language.

In it, the robbers said that they are coming ‘very soon’ and are not afraid of the police or other security agencies. The said thieves went on to describe themselves as friends of the residents in Lambe community, calling on them to prepare for their arrival and cooperate with them.

“If you like, inform the police or your security men or OPC, you will just lose your lives,” they warned.

“You residents of this area be prepared to receive your friends very soon. If you like, inform the police or your security men or OPC, you will just lose your lives. What is important is to cooperate with us and to get ready to give us a warm welcome,” the robbers said in the short letter.

The letter was signed: “We your friends, robbers”.

According to reports, a female resident said that the residents were worried because of the lack of security in Nigeria and that she planned to leave before Easter.

She said residents even dreaded taking about the matter openly because “the robbers might be living among us.”

“ I have warned my husband to stay away from this matter because you do not know who is who in the area,” she said.

PM news reports:

Panic and confusion have enveloped the community with a resident describing Lambe as ‘the playground of armed robbers.’

“Lambe has become the play ground of armed robbers. Incessant robbery attacks have forced landlords to flee the area and are now tenants in other places,” he said, pleading that his name should not be mentioned.

Landlords and tenants in the area are so confused that they do not know what to do and are prepared for the worst.

When P.M.NEWS visited the area, many of the residents were so petrified that they refused to speak.

A resident, who did not, like all others, want his name disclosed, said he will not inform the police as there might be mass killings.

“Besides, the police and the OPC cannot be trusted because they may be aware of their coming and will not do anything,” he said.

Another resident told P.M.NEWS that since they saw the letter, most residents do not sleep again in the night and the landlords and tenants are afraid to even inform the police or talk about it because those behind the letters could be among them.

P.M.NEWS gathered that one of suspects behind the impudent letters was arrested in the night at about 1.00 am and handed over to the police at Ajunwo Police Division.

When our reporter visited the station, the DPO was not around to comment on the matter.

Police said they were not aware of the arrest and sent our reporter to the Ogun State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi who did not return our calls.