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On the heels of the travails of his boss, Col. Sambo Dasuki, Gordon Obua, the chief security officer (CSO) to President Goodluck Jonathan for five years, has been arrested and detained by the Department Security Service (DSS)
He was arrested on Thursday in connection with ongoing investigations by the secret police into the nation’s security vote.
Obua, is being detained at the Abuja headquarters of the DSS
He is believed to have been on hunger strike since Thursday to protest the conditions of his detention, including a lack of access to lawyers and his family members.
He was arrested after honouring an invitation from the agency.
Obua, appointed CSO by Jonathan in 2010, left his position at the end of the former president’s tenure on May 29, although he remains in active service at the security agency.
Dasuki, who served as National Security Adviser NSA) to Jonathan, is also being investigated over security spending running into billions of dollars.
Dasuki’s Abuja residence was searched by SSS operatives from Thursday to Friday as part of the investigation.