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Who was Francis Gbede Endeley? Francis Gbede Endeley (1936-2004) was a British trained Civil Engineer from Sagbama town in the Niger Delta region of Bayelsa State. His administrative prowess found expression as he was made Commissioner of Work and Transport; he delivered on some landmark projects in the second republic under former Governor Chief Melford Okilo’s administration in the old Rivers State from 1979 to 1983. However, between 1983 and 1985 Francis Gbede Endeley and others were political prisoners under Major General Buhari’s Military Government for an alleged and unfounded financial fraud against the Nigerian state from 1979 to 1983. He was released afterwards, in mid-1985. He became more renowned when he chaired the movement for the creation of Bayelsa State in the early 1990s and it was a success in 1996. Francis Gbede Endeley died in 2004 at the age of 68.

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