IN FACT THIS MAN DESERVE THIS FROM FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (1) BANQUET HALL ABUJA SHOULD NAME AFTER HIM
(2)UNIVERSITY OF ABUJA SHOULD NOT LEFT OUT
(3)ALSO SOME FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PROPERTY FROM SOUTHEASTERN PART OF NIGERIA SHOULD NAME AFTER THE GREAT HERO BENJAMIN ADEKUNJLE

General Benjamin Adekunle
Nickname(s) The Black Scorpion
Born 26 June 1936
Kaduna, Kaduna State , Nigeria
Died 13 September 2014 (aged 78)
Lagos, Nigeria
Allegiance Nigeria
Service/branch Nigerian Army
Years of service 1958–1974
Rank General
Commands held 3 Marine Commando
Battles/wars Congo Crisis
Nigerian Civil War
Benjamin Adesanya Maja Adekunle (26 June 1936 – 13 September
2014) was a Nigerian Army leader.
Early years and background
Adekunle was born in Kaduna. His father was a native of Ogbomosho ,
while his mother was a member of the Bachama tribe. He underwent
secondary education at the government college, Okene (in present
day Kogi State ). He enlisted in the Nigerian Army in 1958 shortly
after completing his school certificate examinations. He passed the
army selection examinations and thereafter was despatched to the
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the UK, the British Army's
initial officer entry academy. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant
on December 15, 1960. As a platoon commander, he served in Kasai
Province of Congo with the 1st Battalion, Queen's Own Nigeria
Regiment during his first ONUC UN peace keeping tour of duty. In
1962, Lt. Adekunle became Aide-de-Camp to the governor of the
eastern region, Sir Akanu Ibiam. The following year, as a Captain , he
was posted back to the Congo as Staff Captain (A) to the Nigerian
Brigade HQ at Luluabourg - under Brigadier B. Ogundipe. In 1964,
Major Adekunle attended the Defence Services Staff College at
Wellington, in India . When he returned he was briefly appointed
Adjutant General at the Army Headquarters in May 1965 to replace
Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon , who was proceeding on a course outside the
country. However, he later handed over the position to Lt. Col. James
Pam and was posted back to his old Battalion (1st Bn) in Enugu as a
Company Commander .
Nigerian Civil War
Adekunle later assumed command of the Lagos Garrison as a
substantive Lt. Col. When the Nigerian Civil War erupted in July
1967, Adekunle was tasked to lead elements which included two new
battalions (7th and 8th) - to conduct the historic sea borne assault
on Bonny in the Bight of Benin on 26 July 1968 (carried out by
Major Isaac Adaka Boro 's unit). This happened after the federal
government gained confidence of most south western ethnic groups
as a direct result of Biafran push to mid-west state and probe into
Western region. Adekunle was promoted to Colonel after the Bonny
landing.
The 6th (under Major Jalo) and 8th (under Major Ochefu) battalions
of the Lagos Garrison subsequently took part in operations to
liberate the Midwest following the Biafran invasion of August 1967.
The 7th (under Major Abubakar) stayed behind to hold Bonny.
Because Major Jalo's Unit was seconded to Lt. Col. Murtala
Mohammed 's 2nd Division, Adekunle was left with only the 8th
Battalion at Escravos . He, therefore, protested to Army HQ and got
the Lagos garrison upgraded to Brigade status through the creation
of the 31 and 32 Battalions (under Majors Aliyu and Hamman,
respectively). This formation, combined with elements of the Lagos
garrison along the eastern seaboard, was officially designated the 3
Infantry Division .[1] However, Colonel Adekunle did not think the
name "3 Infantry Division" was sensational enough nor did it project
the nature of the unique terrain in which his men had to fight.
Therefore, without formal approval from Army HQ , he renamed it
the " 3 Marine Commando (3MCDO)." The "Black Scorpion" as he
came to be known, was easily the most controversial, celebrated and
mythologized figure [citation needed] in the war of attrition that laid
the foundations for Nigeria's contemporary crisis; and threw a wedge
into the national fabric. Benjamin "Adekunle's boys in the Midwest
seized Escravos, Burutu, Urhonigbe, Owa and Aladima. They captured
Bomadi and Patani, Youngtown, Koko, Sapele, Ajagbodudu, Warri,
Ughelli, Orerokpe, Umutu and Itagba". [2]
Role after the civil war
Benjamin Adekunle was promoted to Brigadier in 1972. After the war
Adekunle was put in charge of decongesting the Lagos port that was
having a chronic problem of clearing imported goods. He held this
position until being compulsorily retired on August 20, 1974.
He attributed his problems during and after the war to his rivals in
the army. In various interviews, he said there was always a rumor of
coup linked to him until the army authority felt the concern to do
something about it. He had large followings in both the army and
public at large and was the most popular military commander during
the war, apart from Obasanjo, who succeeded him and brought the
war to an end with the same 3MC.
Adekunle led the Third Marine Commando Division with such great
panache and determination that the foreign media, in looking for a
human angle on the Biafran war, found him a ready source of news.
Adekunle was a key champion of the food blockade to Biafra. In a
wartime interview he had with Randolph Baumann of Stern Magazine
in Igweocha (published on August 18, 1968), he stated: [3]
ADEKUNLE: In the section of the front that I rule—and that is the
whole south front from Lagos to the border of Kamerun—I do not
want to see the Red Cross, Caritas Aid, World Church delegation,
Pope, Missionary, or UN delegation.
STERN: Does that mean that the many thousands of tons of food that
are stored in Lagos will never get to the refugee camps in your
section of the country?
ADEKUNLE: You are a sharp one, my friend. That’s exactly what I am
saying.
STERN: But you said yourself that most of the refugees in the part
you captured are not Ibos.
ADEKUNLE: But there could be Ibos among them. I want to avoid
feeding a single Ibo as long as this whole people have not given up
yet.
STERN: Do you sometimes feel sympathy for the Ibos?
ADEKUNLE: I have learned a word from the British, which is “sorry”!
That’s how I want to respond to your question. I did not want this
war but I want to win this war. Therefore I have to kill the Ibos.
Sorry! The End.
Adekunle's son wrote an account of his father's military career in a
biography titled The Nigeria-Biafra Letters: A Soldier's Story.
He died on 13 September 2014. [4] in fact this man really deserve this from federal gover

Yawns

Benjamin ADEKUNJLE you will always remember adieu adieu adieu

Come to think of it if not for the effort of this guy dont you think igbo people would have been so many that the whole of west africa wouldnt have contain them. Fraud money rituals smuggling of hard drugs would have taken another dimension.
But adekunle was mentaly sick that his shildren resort to begging of arm to feed him what a shame.

please moderator move this topic to the frontpage abeg am still in deep sorrow concerning the death of great hero

Adekunle actually died in poverty

Plzz I wanna change my username. I've nailed moderator to this effect but no reply. Do I hv to delete my account?

Yes UNN should be renamed after the blackscorpion himself

WilyWily: Yorubas Sang and praise Adekunle, but allowed him to die a dejected frustrated poor sick smelly Man, haaahaaaahaa Adekule lived a hellish life while on Earth, now he is again living with Satan in the everlasting hell, May Vultures eat his smelly rotten corpse, I spit on his Grave

Adekunle must be tormenting oju-iku right now in hell fire

Yoruba leaders are wicked and heartless for allowing their hero to live and die in abject poverty. May his soul rest in peace.

WilyWily: Yorubas Sang and praise Adekunle, but allowed him to die a dejected frustrated poor sick smelly Man, haaahaaaahaa Adekule lived a hellish life while on Earth, now he is again living with Satan in the everlasting hell, May Vultures eat his smelly rotten corpse, I spit on his Grave

look at your mouth I thought your lazy father has given you false information about the civil war anyway that's your own problem but that is why you should give kudos to him he serve his fatherland with passion loyalty yes its revealed that the late general ADEKUNLE did not make any attempt by claiming any property that's not your during the civil war like ojukwu ojukwu is a notorious and thief he went to delta state he snatched many property there,he also killed many ibo that rich because they against his will he claimed their property or you think ojukwu acquirer his wealth through his toil no.

OP why did you let him live his life in obscurity to which he died demented, lonely and in abject penury?