Navy Captain (retired) Anthony Udofia served as Administrator of

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from December 1993 to August 1996 during the military regime of General

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. He was reported to have harassed his predecessor,

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, stalling his business plans and bugging his telephones. He set up a four-man judicial panel of inquiry, convened on 18 April 1994, to investigate allegations that Adeleke had ordered materials bought for water projects to be sold off to contractors. A severe

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in September 1994 destroyed 400 school buildings across the state. Udofia said that N1 billion would be needed to rehabilitate the schools. As a former military administrator, he was required to retire from the navy in June 1999 at the start of the

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