Biafra and human rights
Sir: General Alexander and Mr W. H. Irvine (Letters, 22 November) are of course absolutely right, in spite of your illusions and the irrelev- ance of Godfrey C. Okeke (Letters, 22 Novem- ber). Your emotional outburst on behalf of the so-called Biafra is luckily no more than one of the after-effects of the jolly free flight and lavish entertainments given to your correspondent by Ojukwu in July. Is it any surprise that you too have become converted to the secession trick? Maybe you are awaiting your ticket for the grand flight and tour of illusionary Biafra.
Godfrey C. Okeke's exercise in historical ex- position is just in the right vein. Others of his stamp confused issues in this very way during Nigeria's first republic. And it is his type of irrelevant comparisons which has landed Nigeria in its present plight.
No one denies that there is a lot of suffering in Nigeria, but then what is war? The best that those who sympathise with the lbos can do is to convince them to lay down their arms. It is too late to call on external factors to retrieve their ill-starred gamble.
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