Benjamin Juma

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Evil-doer
Full Name	Benjamin Juma
Alias	General Benjamin Juma Bihér Jumapili
Origin	24
Occupation	General of People's Freedom Army President of Sangala
Powers / Skills	Combat prowess Military leadership Marksmanship
Hobby	Torturing and killing people.
Goals	Test a bio-weapon given to him by an American conspiracy (succeeded). Assassinate the American president and escape justice (failed).
Crimes	Mass murder Genocide Torture Usurpation Conspiracy Terrorism (inc. bioterrorism) Brainwashing Trespassing Hostage-taking Use of child soldiers False imprisonment Crimes against humanity
Type of Villain	Genocidal Usurper

General Benjamin Juma is the main antagonist of the 2008 action film 24: Redemption and the overarching main antagonist of Season 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 the late Tony Todd, who also played Candyman in the franchise of the same name, Grange in The Crow, Captain Darrow in The Rock, Earl Jenkins in Smallville, King Deucalion in Minotaur, Shadow in Shadow: Dead Riot, Reverend Zombie in the Hatchet film series, The Fallen in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Dreadwing in Transformers: Prime, Darkseid in the LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes film series, Zoom in the Arrowverse, Space Kook in Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!, Darkseid in the DC Animated Movie Universe, Luther Thompson in Scream, William in Tales from the Hood 3 and Venom in Marvel's Spider-Man 2.

Biography

In Redemption, Juma led a military coup and committed a genocide in Sangala in order to rule it, but he was stopped. After the corrupt businessman Jonas Hodges became interested in using Sangala to create a bio weapon, Juma 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. Later, Juma brainwashes children to make them into his own soldiers to use, and finally attempts to do an attack in Sangala once again, before forcing his most trusted henchman Iké Dubaku to commit a bunch of terrorist attacks.

In Day 7, Juma returns as a major antagonist. He uses Dubaku to orchestrate terrorist attacks again but this time he kills Dubaku when he is captured just so that he wouldn't reveal anything. Attacking the White House and preparing on assassinating the president, Juma takes multiple hostages, and then decides to murder some of them to truly show that he's serious with his goals.

However, he soon realizes that the CTU have foiled his plans, and to spite them, he killed the remaining hostages and finally tried killing the President himself. When Jack Bauer shoots him in the leg and requests him to give up. Juma instead grabs his gun, which forces Bauer to shoot him.

Although Juma died thirteen hours into the day, his actions would define the remainer of the season when Starkwood acquired the weapon of mass destruction (the prion variant) that Juma allowed Starkwood to develop and test in Sangala, and then arranged to ship it into the country in exchange for access to the White House.

Trivia

• Juma's actor, Tony Todd, also played another character in 24: Detective Michael Norris in Season 3. In Season 7, agent Renee Walker commented that she was certain she saw Juma "unless he has a twin", which might've been a comical reference to the same actor playing two different people on the show.
• Juma is widely considered to be one of the most evil 24 villains, as he tested a weaponized brain disease on his own country and killed hundreds of thousands of people just to get to power. Juma effectively destroyed his country so his regime could get to power. Fortunately, the rightfully elected prime minister, Ule Matobo, stepped in after Juma's death and presumably restored order to the country.
• Juma is the most prolific mass murderer in the entirety of 24: he was responsible for least 300,000 murders (most during his tenure as the dictator of Sangala, then around 300 in the USA during Season 7). Abu Fayed of Season 6 holds the record for most confirmed murders on American soil: at least 13,000. Habib Marwan of Season 4 caused a meltdown which resulting in a completely unknown number of fatalities, but an early estimate of the maximum potential death count was 50,000 persons.
• Juma, along with Iké Dubaku, is clearly a communist. The government they led was responsible for murdering those they deemed wealthy and powerful to hand control back to "the people". Of course, Juma and Dubaku cared only for their own power, as they were shown to massacre the very people they claimed to represent to develop a biological weapon.
• Based on his conversation with Ryan Burnett, Juma apparently had an escape plan from the White House, and it was not a suicide mission as most people believed.
• It is unknown whether or not Juma would've followed through with the White House siege if Dubaku's plot with the CIP device worked.

External Links

• Benjamin Juma on the Pure Evil Wiki.