”General Ojukwu has deceived his people to believe they are fighting the civil war for their survival, but he has cleverly enthroned tyranny in that unhappy land. When he bragged three weeks ago that the war will not end on a conference table but on the battlefield, he shut the door to any meaningful peaceful settlement of this carnage. What strikes me is his apparent imperviousness to reason and insensitiveness to human suffering. The death of children and helpless old people in millions would appear to mean nothing to him. I have yet to hear an expression of sympathy emanating from him for the plight of these innocents. I have hoped against hope to see a picture of him fondling with one of these skeletal children. Yet his two children are robust and healthy; and he had had the temerity to tell the parents of the dying generation to sacrifice everything for the sustenance of the mirage of Biafra sovereignty …
”If a person of my statue cannot hold opinion on any public issue and must only express views which conform to a regimented behaviour pattern of the Biafra Establishment, then it is evident that Biafra cannot, by any stretch of the imagination, be regarded, as a democratic and tolerant society. Yet many people, including university dons and students of Biafra origin, would not hesitate to condemn those who dared to hold their own opinions, and refused to conform to misdirected, misguided and mistaken popular opinion. How can I, in conscience, support a leadership which deliberately violated section 86 of the Nigerian Constitution , craftily transformed Eastern Nigeria into a Police State, shamelessly placed a premium on double-talk, systematically metamorphosed and mesmerized Igbo and non-Igbo leaders who live in Biafra and outside its confines, into cowards who dare not oppose a tyranny which has been firmly rooted in their homeland, for fear of death. They are so supine that they cannot protect their children from hunger and disease and death, because they are afraid of being ostracized, or detained, or shot, on the order of a confirmed despot, created by them. What a chicken-hearted generation”.
Centre for Nigeria Progress 