Keep money for us or lose your hands – I million boys gang tell Lagos residents ahead of planned robbery

Residents of different communities in Lagos are now in panic mood after the dreaded One Million Boys wrote letters of their intending robbery operations and demanded that residents should keep money for them or be prepared to lose their hands.

 P.M.EXPRESS reports that in the letter addressed to Lagos residents, they emphatically stated that they were coming for robbery operations and that the residents should keep money for them and failure to do so will attract cutting off defaulters hands as punishment for not having money.

 In their letter captioned Alert! Alert!! Alert!!! the robbers stated, “We the undefeated One Million Boys will visit your area soon. Keep money for us and if you fail to do so, we will cut off your hands during the operations”.

Lagos state has been under almost complete lockdown since late March and crime has skyrocketed in the city accordingly.

 Last week residents of the state took to social media platforms to send SOS messages to Nigerians as their neighborhoods were robbed one after another in broad day light.

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Some of the areas the gang numbering hundreds with assorted weapons attacked included Agege, Dopemu, Orisumbare, Idimu, Ejigbo, Ikotun, Isheri Oshun before they moved down to Orile, Mazamaza, Ojo and Ajegunle.

The IGP of police has already deployed a squadron of security forces to the affected areas, it remains unclear however how effective the deployment has been so far.