26th July, 1967, Benjamin Adekunle Black Scorpion laid a siege on Bonny Island and captured it. From there he prepared to invade into the interiors to engage the rebel leader, Ojukwu. From Bonny, he invaded the coastal regions, starting from Calabar.
He settled his troops at Calabar after he captured the airport and with his 3MCDO force, he unleashed physical and mental torture on Biafra as he took back all the coastal regions all the way to Port Harcourt.
Benjamin Adekunle forced the rebel army into a dot in a circle with limited access to the outside world and little resources to survive on. His success was largely due to the support of Adaka Boro and Ijaw people. They showed them through the creeks and acted as their couriers.
Adaka Boro had a sea school at Atimbo where he trained soldiers to be swimmers and they helped the soldiers with logistics. He had over 3,000 people under his command. They traced all the hideouts of the Biafra soldiers and gave the feedback to Black Scorpion.
Before 3MCDO engage the enemy, Adaka Boro went ahead with his boys, they transported logistics and provisions for the soldiers and showed them routes through the swamps, off the radar of Biafra troops who usually waited to intercept them in the open roads bordering cities.
Black Scorpion's success was largely with the help of Adaka Boro. Without him & his boys, they would have been clueless in terrains they were not familiar with and with no way to escape, they probably would have been massacred and drowned in the Atlantic Ocean by the rebel army.
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