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Colonel (retired) Robert (Bob) Nnaemeka Akonobi was appointed military governor of Anambra State Nigeria from December 1987 to August 1990 during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida.On 27 June 1988 Akonobi reconstituted the board of Nigeria Mineral Water Industries empowering it turn the company into a profitable private venture.In 1989 he established the Anambra State Oil Palm Development Agency.He officially commissioned the Anambra State University of Technology Teaching Hospital since renamed the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital on 19 July 1991.Akonobi got entangled in the struggle between the Wawa (Anambra North) and Ijekebee (Anambra South) groups which had reached its peak in a bloodbath at Nkpor junction in 1983.In a controversial book titled Akonobi Brothers and Sisters (ABS) a later governor of Anambra State Christian Onoh accused Akonobi of using his position to acquire property in Enugu.Onoh who himself owned 510 undeveloped lots of land described monumental corruption and said the Akonobi brothers had stolen huge amounts of Federal funds.