The suspects were paraded at the headquarters of the corps in Akure, the state capital, on Wednesday.
The Corps Commander, Adetunji Adeleye, told journalists that the suspects were arrested for different criminal activities, including rape, violation of anti-grazing law, kidnapping, armed robbery and murder among others.
Adeleye urged residents of the state to be security conscious and be on the lookout for herdsmen who he said were attempting to flood forests in the state. He disclosed that about 9,000 herdsmen attempted to enter the state through the border communities in Edo, Kogi and Ekiti States with a large number of cattle to perpetrate crimes recently, but were sent back.
He said, “The reality is that in the last month, we have a very heavy annoying unusual influx of herdsmen into the state. We have to drive them back to where they came from.
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