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DSS picks GEJ’s CSO
Barely 48 hours after operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS) ended a siege on the residence of the immediate past National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki, the agency has also arrested and detained Gordon Obuah, the Chief Security Officer (CSO) to former President Goodluck Jonathan.
A source at the DSS claimed that Obuah’s detention was in connection with ongoing investigations by the agency on the alleged movement of large sums of “security money” in the last administration as well as oil theft in the Niger Delta.
However, family sources said he has been in detention since Thursday, four days after he was asked to report daily to the headquarters of the agency.
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A representative of the family said Obuah, who was CSO to Jonathan for four years has been kept in solitary confinement as well as denied access to family members, medical care and his lawyers.
It was gathered, that he went on hunger strike since Thursday to protest the conditions of his detention, including lack of access to lawyers and his family members.
He was arrested after honouring an invitation from the agency. A source alleged that he is being kept in an underground cell and “is not co-operating” and could spend a longer period in detention.
Although he left his position at the end of the former president’s tenure on May 29, he remains in active service at the security agency.
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Oise
July 19, 2015 at 9:04 am
I’m personally beginning to view this recent raid on former public servants as some form of selective justice. EFFC’s arrest and prosecution of governors (mostly PDP), and now DSS is after Dasuki and Obuah. This administration should bear in mind that while it important for justice to be done, it is equally important that justice be SEEN to have been done. The people’s perception of whether justice is done or not is crucial to maintaining peace, especially in a heterogeneous society like Nigeria.