Sir, - I have worked in Nigeria continually since January 1975. I can assure your readers there most certainly is not a civil rights problem in Nigeria, nor indeed in Ghana where our company has been working for the past six years. There are no genuine civil rights refugees from either of these two countries.
I have no intimate knowledge of the other countries and don't wish to enter into the general uninformed controversy. I would just like to make two points: the total bureaucratic lack of speed in handling the situation and not allowing the asylum-seekers to work while they are being processed is ludicrous. - Yours, etc.,
Hugo V. Flinn, Newtownmountkennedy, Co Wicklow.