23 AUGUST 1968, Page 26

Hail Biafra

Sir : It is interesting to note that your corre- spondent Mr Waugh has been persuaded that the inhabitants of Udi are 'minorities people' (2 August). This remark shows just how un- reliable are the claims of credulous British pressmen that the 'minorities' support Ojukwu. One wonders how many more of the sup- posedly 'minorities' people exhibited to foreign journalists were in fact Ibos.

J. M. Ita Department of Modern Languages, University of Ife, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

What Auberon Waugh wrote was that 'of the 550 people in the Orei-Amaenyi [refugee] camp, 136 were non-Ibos from the Udi area.' —Editor, SPECTATOR.