Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Raphael Ben Kechi Okafor dan siyasar Najeriya ne kuma dan kasuwa wanda ya kasance memba na Majalisar Wakilai ta Tarayya, wanda ke wakiltar Owerri-West a lokacin Jamhuriyar farko ta Najeriya. Ya kasance memba na ƙungiyar Zikist kuma tsohon Sakataren Majalisar Tarayya ne, Ma'aikatar Ciniki kuma daga baya ta Ma'aikatar Shari'a. A takaice dai ya kasance Ministan Kasuwanci na Tarayya a watan Janairun 1966 kafin juyin mulki
kawo karshen Jamhuriyar Farko. Bayan juyin mulkin da kuma lokacin yakin Biafra, ya shiga cikin tara kudi ga sojojin Biafra. A cikin 1970s, ya zama wakili mai tsaftacewa da jigilar kaya a ƙarƙashin sunan kasuwanci na Continental Lines (Africa) Ltd.