Benoît Sinzogan (July 14, 1930 – January 11, 2021) was a Beninese military officer and politician, best known for leading his country's gendarmerie in the late 1960s.
They were spurred on by the historical resentment shared by members of the former kingdoms of Abomey, Porto Novo, and disorganised tribes from the north.
[6] He was the original head of the Comité Militare de Vigilance when it was established on April 6, 1967, which was set up to administer President Christophe Soglo's regime.
[2] Sinzogan was alternate judge of the military trial convened in 1972 to address an attempted coup that Kouandété tried to perpetrate.
In October, when Mathieu Kérékou seized power in a coup, Sinzogan was removed from the military and appointed commissioner of the National Society of the Development of the Forest (S.N.A.F.O.R.).
Academic Samuel Decalo described the man as "too timid to mount a coup" during the 1960s and 1970s, being "one of Dahomey's few senior officers not to attempt to.