Nigeria, Jan. 15 -- Niger State Governor, Mohammed Bago, has described Kasuwan Daji, the village where more than 40 locals were recently killed by Boko Haram fighters in Borgu Local Government Area, as a "market of thieves."

"It was an attack by a bandit group hitting a market where rustled cattle are sold," he told journalists during his condolence visit to the Emir of Borgu, Muhammad Haliru, at his palace in New Bussa.

The governor also ordered the evacuation of communities in the fringes of now-terrorised Kainji Lake National Park to prevent what he described as "collateral damage."

PREMIUM TIMES reported that Boko Haram terrorists under the command of Mallam Sadiku launched a Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) into Kasuwan Daji, before...