15 JULY 1972, Page 25

Nkrumah's return

From Captain Duncan Neil Dewar Sir: Not surprisingly, I almost puked when, at breakfast, I read that the body of Kwame'Nkrumah had been flown from Guinea to Accra for a ceremonial burial in Ghana.

During the war I met not a few of his brave West African countrymen who, alas, lost their lives fighting in Burma whilst Nkrumah himself was domiciled in America efficiently absorbing political and economic jiggery-pokery. Now, with the return of the body of Ghana's ex-president, can Britain hopefully expect a return of at least some of those millions of our taxpayers' money he took with him into exile?

Duncan Neil Dewar 2 Fernwood Avenue, London, SW16