Original upload date: Sun, 09 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sun, 05 Dec 2021 02:34:04 GMT
April 1968.
Footage of Colonel Benjamin Adekunle, the Commanding Officer of 3 Marine Commando (Originally the Third Infantry Division of the Nigerian Army), after the liberation of Ediba, a village s
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ituated on the banks of the Cross River and about 40 miles north west of Calabar.
The village had been previously occupied by forces of the secessionist state of Biafra. In the battle which led to its recapture, Ediba was almost completely ruined.
Excerpt from Reuters Text:
"After the liberation of Ediba, the villagers joined in the celebration with Federal troops. They had been hiding in the surrounding jungles during the rebel occupation".
Source of footage: Reuters News Archive.
Obituary for Adekunle written in September 2014:
"About Brigadier Benjamin Adekunle"
http://adeyinkamakinde.blogspot.com/2014/10/benjaminadekunle-as-colonel-during.html
