Britain and Biafra
Sir: Those of us who are deeply involved emotionally about the situation in Nigeria are grateful to you• for the generous amount of space you have given to the opposing view- points.
And it is because you have given so much space to lbo writers that many of your readers will now be the better able to assess the kind of people they are. It seems that they cannot contain their spleen which runs through all their correspondence nor can they hide their arrogance and insolence. is it any wonder they are the most detested tribe in West Africa— and they are the most ambitious. If Kaunda and Nyerere were the heads of West African states they would not be so agile in backing the lbo rebels whose ambitions know no boundaries.
Mr Ilogu states (Letters, 24 January) that my opinions on his tribe 'are the product of pre- judice motivated by hatred.' How on earth can he character-analyse me from my simple letter which merely pointed out that the Ibos are assassins who mutinied in the army then marched into the three Regions of Nigeria determined to conquer the country and turn the forty-five million Nigerians into second- class citizens: These are facts no matter how llogu (and Waugh) attempt to twist to suit their purposes. Worse' still, they ignore fact for fiction.
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