OJUKWU IN HOSPITAL, MEETING PATIENTS; AT PRESS CONFERENCE -- SOUND ON FILM.



TRANSCRIPT: OJUKWU: "LANDING TROOPS IN THE DELTA CREEK AREAS IS ONE THING -- USING THEM WITH EFFECT IS VASTLY DIFFERENT. IT IS CLEAR TO ME THAT WHAT MY GOOD FRIENDS TAMBANDIT GOWON IS PLANNING THERE IS CLEARLY TO GET A GROUP OF MEN ROUND THE OIL TERMINAL AND THEN TO SHAKE THE MANAGERS OF THE OIL COMPANIES BY THE SCRUFF OF THE NECK AND DEMAND MONEY -- THAT'S ALL. HE KNOWS WELL THAT THE TROOPS IN THAT AREA CAN BE OF NO USE. THERE IS A DANGER OF THIS, THOUGH: THAT IN HIS LUNACY HE MIGHT IN FACT DECIDE TO TURN VERY NASTY AND DESTROY THE TERMINAL INSTALLATIONS."




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Background: LATEST REPORTS SAY THAT FEDERAL NIGERIAN FORCES ARE HOLDING THE OIL TERMINAL OF BONNY IN BIAFRA, THE BREAKAWAY EASTERN REGION OF NIGERIA DESPITE RADIO BIAFRA CLAIMS THAT THE ATTACK HAS BEEN REPULSED. AT A PRESS CONFERENCE SEVERAL DAYS AGO THE BIAFRAN LEADER, LIEUTENANT COLONEL OJUKWU, DISCUSSED THE FEDERAL TROOPS' CHANCES OF TAKING THE PORT. EARLIER COLONEL OJUKWU VISITED A HOSPITAL IN ENUGU, WHERE HE SPOKE TO SOLDIERS WHO HAVE BEEN WOUNDED SINCE FIGHTING BROKE OUT BETWEEN THE RIVAL REGIMES.

WOUNDED SOLDIERS ARE BEING GIVEN TREATMENT IN SEVERAL HOSPITALS THROUGHOUT BIAFRA. ARMY HOSPITALS, THE GENERAL HOSPITAL IN ENUGU AND A CONVERTED PRIVATE CLINIC HAVE ALL BEEN PUT TO USE.

COLONEL OJUKWU MADE HIS VISIT TO A HEAVILY GUARDED ARMY HOSPITAL NEAR ENUGU. HE MET AND TALKED TO A FEW OF THE 930 MEN UNDERGOING TREATMENT THERE.

LATER, IN A PRESS CONFERENCE AND MILITARY BRIEFING, THE SECESSIONIST LEADER DISCUSSED THE STRATEGIC OUTLOOK FOR THE 100,000 VOLUNTEERS HE CLAIMS TO HAVE IN HIS FORCE.

HE SPOKE OF THE FEDERAL NIGERIAN LEADER, MAJOR GENERAL YAKUBU GOWON, WHEN HE REFERRED TO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PLANS TO OVERTAKE BONNY.