A former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to
ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, Mr.
Gordon Obuah was arrested and
detained by the Department of State
Service


By Yemi Adebowale


Mr. Gordon Obua, former Chief Security
Officer to President Goodluck Jonathan
has passed away in the custody of
Department of Security Services (DSS)
in its Abuja Headquarters where he had
been detained since Thursday, July 16,
2015 on the orders of President
Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian online
newspaper, The Trent is reporting.
Sources who have been monitoring the
situation have confirmed Obua’s
passing. He was arrested on Thursday
when he honoured an invitation by the
DSS.


Obua, who was being detained by the
DSS in an underground dungeon for
undisclosed reasons was being denied
access to his lawyers, family, and his
doctors on the orders of the new Director
General of the DSS, Lawal Musa, which
serves as Nigeria’s secret police.
Our sources say Obua’s remains are still
in the custody of the DSS at the time of
filing this report. He was held without
charges filed against him.


On July 18, 2015, Onochie Onwuegbuna,
the lead partner at Zeran Legal, has
issued a press statement on behalf of
Obua’s family complaining about the
conditions in which his client was being
detained and said that his client was
being witch-hunted by the Buhari
government. He said his client was
diabetic and hypertensive and was
being denied his drugs as well as food
and water by the DSS.


Obua, until his death, was an employee
of the SSS and his employer knew about
his medical conditions but decided, in
impunity, to deny him access to his
medicines and doctor, his lawyer
alleged.
Onwuegbuna said that the Buhari
government had ‘marked’ his client, and
other individuals who held offices in
Jonathan’s administration and the
arrest of his client was a scheme, “in
other to implicate them by all means for
phantom crimes or offences”.
A non-governmental organisation, the
Society for Global Justice had issued a
statement on Obua’s continued
detention at the DSS, on Saturday
calling for the release of the former Chief
Security Officer.


Executive director of the group, Mr.
Marcus Ogabe confirmed that Obua was
detained at the SSS headquarters in
Abuja since Thursday.
The group also said the
continued detention of Obua is indicative
of “the tyrannical, autocratic and
dictatorship tendency of the
Muhammadu Buhari administr




http://www.thebreakingtimes.com/ex-cso-to-president-jonathan-gordon-obua-dies-in-sss-
custody/

Gbege...

the dark days are back, God save us!

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It's a lie. ghen ghen

Smh....this is a clear case of ; HE WHO WANTS TO SWALLOW A COW SHOULD FIRST CHECK HIS ANUS.
GBAM
no clear evidence? I thought they said d crime against him was bunkery business
Trash. Attacking all those that were very close to Jonathan doesn't solve corruption problems. U vent started until u probably , arrest n jail those who were in his govt, who helped destroy it, who backed u up during elections, who r now in APC. U know them. It doesn't mean if they r now in APC they ve been washed by d blood of d lamb n r now saints....
Witch hunting sometimes turn to another thing o.
In this case na another thing.

This is why Nigeria is backwards. Who will hand over to opposition in future?
This 'change' is disastrous' and will backfire.

ok

chai...I no blv dis story

unfortunate

Na so person dey die? Then d whole Nigeria 4 don die nah!!!

This isn't good for PMB's administration.

During the the regime of Abacha, similar event like this happened when NDLEA arrested 'Abami eda himself'. This was in August 1997 and NDLEA were just fortunate that a couple of days after his release, 'Abami eda himself, Fela Anikulapo Kuti died'.

I wonder how DSS would explain this. RIP to the dead.

Tragic!

If dis is true, Nigeria is in reverse gear 2 1984 era..




SML for dis administration.

KwoiZabo:
It's a lie. ghen ghen

it better be, or....

Someone please educate me, is there no way this government could be charged to ICC for this torture? It's really pathetic that Dss can arrest an individual without first inviting him for questioning and charging him to court. I'm really sad to hear this. Somebody should please tell Buhari to stop his hypocritical fight against corruption when he dines with the founders of corruption. Why so much hate on gej Why That is why I hate gej for accepting defeat I know he regrets that now. He should have handed over to Military instead or rejected the kano,kaduna results et al just when orubebe was in action. RIP to the dead.

I hope this news is fake...cos this doesn't look good

This will not end well. I earnestly hope it's not true.

This had better be a lie! a propaganda like it's called. It had better be one.

donholy28:
See fake news...soon now we go see d man 4 TV wr im dey talk...but if na true yawa don gas...

a very big yawa for that matter!

Where's Amnesty international now? What are they waiting for to make a statement on this. This is wickedness,there is no more rule of law.

Is this the change they have been preaching about?

mira4u:
Is this the change they have been preaching about?

seems like!

A pedophile n a Terrorist Head of de Zoo has done it again. His political ambition has worth de blood of Nigerians

This is what I call gobe. You denied him drugs and now he is dead. Can a dead man be arrested and jailed? Buhari should thread carefully

Is it a crime to serve ones fatherland? It is really unfortunate.Our SS has been turned to WITCH-HUNT agency since that daura was brought back from retirement.

This na wahala o

Calm down Calm down, e farabale, let DSS release statement 1st b4 una dey blive one yeye paper wey dey find cheap publicity....

I hope d story is false sha...
Sai Buhari nooni

Any APC E-ROBOTS that will support this MAY HE/SHE ,HIS/HER FAMILY & GENERATION RECEIVE THIS KIND OF THIS TREATMENT METED TO THIS MAN IN 100 FOLDS.

Hope this ain't true.