General Benjamin Juma is the main antagonist of the 2008 action film 24: Redemption and one of the secondary antagonists of Day 7 of the TV Show 24.
He is a former military general and the president of the fictional African nation Sangala.
He was portrayed by Tony Todd, who also played Captain Darrow in The Rock, The Fallen in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Zoom in The Flash TV series, Darkseid in the DC Animated Movie Universe and William in Tales from the Hood 3.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Launched military coup and committed genocide in Sangala in order to rule it.
- When the corrupt businessman Jonas Hodges became interested in using Sangala to create a bioweapon, he helped him by testing it by using it on a peaceful Sangalan village, killing everyone there, and in exchange Juma was granted the position as ruler of Sangala.
- Brainwashed children to make them into his own soldiers to use.
- Attempted to do an attack in Sangala once again, and ordered his most trusted henchman Iké Dubaku to commit a bunch of terrorist attacks.
- Used Iké to orchestrate terrorist attacks again and this time he killed Iké when he was captured, just so that he wouldn't rreveal anything.
- Attacked the white house and prepared on assassinating the president.
- Took multiple hostages, and then decided to murder some of them to truly show that he's serious with his goals.
- When he realized that the CTU have foiled his plans, he killed the remaining hostages to site them and finally tried killing the president himself.
- When he confronted and fought Bauer he tried to kill Bauer.
- When Bauer shot him in the leg and requested him to surrender, he tried to grab his gun, which forced Bauer to shoot him.
Trivia[]
- Benjamin Juma is, alongside Nina Myers, Peter Kingsley, Vladimir Bierko, Abu Fayed, Phillip Bauer and Alan Wilson, one of the seven 24 villains to be Pure Evil.
