Femi Okunnu, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, served as the Federal Commissioner for Works and Housing between 1967 and 1974. He was also appointed by General Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria's wartime head of state, as a Special Envoy and Leader of Peace Talks, during the 30-month Nigerian civil war. In this interview with Sulaimon Olanrewaju, he reveals that the federal side's efforts to supply relief materials to the Biafran side to mitigate hunger and starvation among the Igbo were frustrated.

I feel a bit disappointed at the statement credited to one of Nigeria's leading literary lights and, indeed, one of Africa's leading lights, Professor Chinua Achebe. I am quite disappointed about the book alleged to have been written by him about a subject in which I played a leading role on the federal side.

Read more here : http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/lead-stories/49160-ojukwu-used-starvation-to-prolong-civil-war-okunnu

hmmmm... interesting interview