Governor Caleb Muftwang has said the killings going on in Plateau State is sponsored and genocidal.

He said this when he appeared on Channels Television's Politics Today program on Tuesday.

According to him, the attacks are sponsored by highly connected people whom his administration will expose soon.

Muftwang said this after 50 people were killed in Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau recently.

He said,“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.