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SECURITY OPERATIVES INTERCEPT SCORES OF HERDSMEN IN KWARA STATE

Reports indicate that security operatives have intercepted a large number of herdsmen in Kwara.


The security personnel, comprising the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), the Nigerian Army and the Police, intercepted the herdsmen at Erinle-Offa axis. They were with some of their cattle and were heading for the Kwara-Osun boundary.


In a statement by NSCDC spokesman, Mr Babawale Afolabi, the herders were on their way to Ajase-Ipo, a town in the lfelodun Local Government Area of Kwara.


“On August 4, suspected Fulani herdsmen in their hundreds were intercepted at Erinle, a border town in Oyun Local Government Area of Kwara.


“The suspected herdsmen were later led to Ajase-Ipo by the JTF where further background checks and profiling were been carried out by security operatives,” Afolabi said.


The spokesman added that the herdsmen had been allowed to remain in Ajase-Ipo in the meantime.


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