Commodore Ibrahim Kefas (Rtd), who served as Military Administrator of Delta State during the military regime of General Sani Abacha is dead.
Kefas, who also served as Military Administrator of Cross River State died as Nigeria marks her 61st anniversary of independence.
Kefas was Military Administrator of Cross River State between December 1993 and September 1994, and then of Delta State until August 1996.
While Governor of Delta State, he sacked professor Frank Mene Adedemiswanye Ukoli, Vice-Chancellor of Delta State University for political reasons, an incident recorded in Ukoli’s book: A State University is Born: Throes of Birth, Ordeals of Growth.