October 02, (THEWILL) – A former military administrator of Delta and Cross River states, Commodore Ibrahim Kefas (rtd), is dead.
He was 73 years old.
Kefas served as administrator of both states at different times during the military regime of General Sani Abacha.
Kefas was the military administrator of Cross River state between December 1993 and September 1994.
As a Group Captain, he was redeployed to Delta State as Military Administrator in September 1994 and exited August 1996.
While administrator 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’.
The eldest of children born to Christian missionary Atewunu Angyu Kefas (Manu), Commodore Kefas was born on January 27, 1948 in Wukari, Taraba State.
His father, Manu, was one of the missionaries to introduce Christianity to the region.
Being a very devout Christian, he enrolled Ibrahim Kefas in Bible College at the age of thirteen hoping he would become a preacher.
Ibrahim Kefas, being the youngest student in Bible College at time, completed his program but was fascinated by planes and wanted to fly them so he joined the Nigerian Defence Academy and became a pilot before he was 20 years old.
In March 2002, as Taraba State Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Kefas and other PDP politicians were attacked by over 200 youths who invaded a PDP rally, and narrowly escaped death.
