Nigeria, June 16 -- They are killing us, and this is what the Presidency is saying?

With due respect, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, this press release is an insult. It fails to match even a fraction of the horror unfolding in Benue State. Entire villages are being wiped out. Families butchered. Children buried in shallow graves, hundreds burnt alive. Yet, from the comfort of Abuja, what we receive is a recycled, lifeless statement that tiptoes around the truth.

Let's dispense with the euphemisms. Let's ask plainly.

1. Who exactly are the "warring parties"?

Are you referring to the peaceful villagers slaughtered in their sleep? The farmers chased off their land by bullets and machetes? Or is this deliberate vagueness this cowardly diplomacy design...