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Major General Phillip Effiong, the Biafran Chief of General Staff, hosted us several times at his improvised headquarters in the jungle. Because of constantly changing front lines, we met him at a different location each time having, along the way, run the gauntlet of being strafed by Nigerian Air Force MiG17s flown by Ares Klootwyk and his bunch of British and South African mercenary pilots. (Author’s collection)