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The Mid-West operation had created a lull in the Nsukka sector. The Biafrans seized the opportunity to improve their defences and reorganise their formationsthe two new Brigades in particular. This explains why for about two months after the fall of Nsukka there was not much activity in that sector. The Biafran forces never liked to be out-flanked and cut-off, just as the Nigerians never liked operating during the rainy seasons. The Nigerians took advantage of the Biafran weakness to outflank and overrun many Biafranlocations between Nsukka and Enugu. Suddenly out of the blue the Nigerians wou…