Biafra: war to the bitter end?
Sir: I do not think your readers should place too much importance on the assessment of the Nigerian situation by Mr Peter Enahoro (27 September).
Enahoro is a professional_nonconformist, the enfant terrible of the Nigerian press, and he works terribly hard and frenetically to be `terrible.'
Your readers should know that Mr Enahoro was anti-Ironsi to such an extent that he felt it in his interests to leave Nigeria. Now he has taken to globe-trotting after a spell of lead- ing criticism against Gowon.
Mr Enahoro is professionally against every- thing and, amateurishly, for practically nothing.
In his article he has laboured to be provoca- tive and has succeeded; he has, however, failed to give even a glimmering of a solution to the present tragedy.
Mr Enahoro (oddly enough, he wrote under the pseudonym of Peter- Pan in Nigeria) h surely making the very most of his family name. But in a peculiar way. For what purpose?
lames Donaldson Lanark Road, Currie, Midlothian
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