Over 64 Plateau State communities have been overrun by terrorists and bandits who have displaced thousands of citizens in a carnage that continues to claim lives.
Plateau State governor Caleb Muftwang, while speaking on a Channels TV interview decried the killings and wanton destruction property. Last week over 50 people were killed in an attack in Bokkos Local Government Area.
“I can tell you in all honesty that I cannot find any explanation other than genocide sponsored by terrorists,” Muftwang said.
“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.”
He lamented that at least 64 communities across Bokkos, Barkin Ladi, and Riyom LGAs had been forcibly taken over by armed groups.
“As I am talking to you, there are not less than 64 communities that have been taken over by bandits on the Plateau. They have been taken over, renamed, and people are living there conveniently on lands they pushed people away to occupy,” he said.
