Daughter of the late Brig. Benjamin Adekunle, Mrs. Busola Olagunju, said she had received several death threats from some people who claimed to be sympathisers of the Biafra struggle.
Olagunju said in an interview granted The Punch during the first anniversary of Adekunle’s death in Ogbomoso that her late father, who was a commander of the 3rd Marine Commando that fought in the Nigeria Civil War, and former president Olusegun Obasanjo did not quarrel over issues surrounding their contributions to the war.
“There is a historical fact about who ended the Civil War, there is no rift or debate about that. The debate is about who contributed the most between my father and Obasanjo. That is however subjective. Some say my father had already conquered the whole of Biafra and that Biafra was already like a tablet of soap when Obasanjo took over from my father. But even if it was a size of postage stamp, the truth is that Obasanjo took over when the war was still on,” she had said in the interview.
But on Wednesday, Olagunju, who is a legal practitioner, informed our correspondent that her life was threatened on Facebook, with some accusing her father of genocide.
“Some people attacked me over my comment in the interview. They said I must die for my comment on Biafra. I will not take the threat for granted, I will report to security agencies,” she said.
In one of the messages sent, Richard Onyema wrote, “U will die soon watch and see”.
Another message posted by Christian Rowland suggested that children of all Nigerian soldiers should be tracked and killed.
“It’s now time to kill all the Nigerian army children, track them and kill them all, kill, kill, kill, kill them, since their parents don’t want other parents to enjoy their own children, then all the Nigeria armed forces children must be tracked and killed. It’s time we started making our own statement and let’s keep the scores. The zoo called Nigeria must fall.
“This goes out to all the Biafrans in Port Harcourt, track her down, she will be used as a scapegoat to all others in the force, if they kill any of us, we will kill three to four. It’s time we started doing what the director, Nnamdi Kanu, said we should do…Her father must see how burials taste like.”
In another message, Chimezie Williams said, “She (Olagunju) should consider herself dead. I have informed her.”
T. Mayor Edeh said Biafra would return while saying that Olagunju would join her dead father while Anyiamite Iscariot called for her hanging.
Christian Anyamele said, “Busola Olagunju the daughter of Black Scorpion, your father killed Biafrans and you are happy about it.”
Brig. Adekunle, popularly known as the Black Scorpion, died on September 13, 2014 at the age of 78. He retired from the Nigerian Army in 1974 after 16 years in service.
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