by Rachel Ogbu

With April Fool’s Day just around the corner, this might be a mean joke but for the first time in days, residents in the Lambe community of Ogun State can sleep well, or at least with one eye open as the police guaratees better security after they woke up one day to find letters from Nigerian robbers asking for a warm welcome when they strike in their community soon.

The Ogun State Police Command recently announced that the necessary steps were in place to secure Lambe community.

[READ: Chilling: Robbers write letter to prepare residents for attack in Ogun (LOOK) ]

On Tuesday morning the people found the daring letters written in Yoruba language pasted on walls on Akin Akindele Street, Community Road and Jelili Popoola Street.

Translated, the letter reads:

“You residents of this community, we greet you on your preparation. You will soon receive us your friends. If you like, inform the police or the vigilance group or OPC (members of the Oodua People’s Congress). You will only waste your lives.”

“The most important thing is for you to cooperate with us by preparing to entertain us when we come. We are your friends, robbers.”

The Punch reports:

Our correspondent visited the area on Thursday and some of the residents, who vehemently refused to give their names, said they believed the suspected robbers and writers of the letters were individuals who knew the area well.

A landlord said he had ensured that he got the phone numbers of all security agents in the area on speed dial in anticipation of the attack. A landlord, who said he would prefer to give a name by which nobody knew him in the area, Sikiru, told Saturday PUNCH that the robbers deliberately wanted to create panic first.Spokesman for the state police command, Mr. Muyiwa Adejobi, said one of the residents of the community had contacted him on the matter.

Adejobi said, “But I told them to go and report to the divisional police officer at Ajuwon. The DPO there will take all the necessary steps.“The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ikemefuna Okoye, is also aware of the situation and had instructed that the DPO should do all that is necessary to protect the residents.”