UNCERTAIN: Former DSS to presiden Jonathan dies in SSS Custody

The information reaching our new desk
according to The Trent is that Mr.
Gordon Obua, former Chief Security
Officer to President Goodluck Jonathan
has passed away a few hours ago, July
20, 2015 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.
Sources who have been monitoring the
situation have confirmed Obua’s
passing to The Trent. He was arrested
on Thursday when he honoured an
invitation by the DSS and had been in
solitary confinement until his death.
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
Daura. The DSS (also called SSS) serves
as Nigeria’s secret police.
President Buhari appointed Lawal
Daura, his kinsman from his hometown
in Katsina on July 2, as head of the DSS
after firing Ita Ekpeyong. Daura was
recalled from retirement as he had
retired from the service of the DSS
when he reached the mandatory age of
60 according to the Civil Service rules
of Nigeria.