Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang, says the recent killings in the state is sponsored and genocidal.
The governor said this, Tuesday, on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
This online medium reports that over 50 people have been killed and thousands rendered homeless in recent weeks in the North-Central state.
The assailants struck in several communities in the Bokkos Local Government Area of the state, displacing many and leaving a trail of destruction behind.
Miffed by the killings, Mutfwang has linked the attacks to some unnamed terrorist groups, adding that the assault in Plateau State was being sponsored and targeted at wiping off communities in the state.
“I can tell you in all honesty that I cannot find any explanation other than genocide sponsored by terrorists.
“The question is, who are the persons behind the organisers of this terrorism? This is what the security agencies must help us to unravel.
“We must come to the point where we know the sponsors because it is not just the work of ordinary people. This is being sponsored from somewhere, and I am sure that in the coming days, the security agencies will work together – not at cross purposes but in unison – to be able to bring out the requisite intelligence that will help us to put this matter behind us,” he said.
The attacks are the latest in a series of assaults on Plateau, which has, in the past, recorded similar incidents.
While some have linked it to the fight for resources between farmers and herders, the governor said the attacks on the state are beyond fighting for limited resources and has likened it to terrorism.
