On July 29, 1967, Yakubu Gowon wrote a letter to the British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, begging him to stop the BBC, Financial Times, and The Economist from reporting the true situation in Biafra in exchange for oil supplies, as they had provided him with arms.
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