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\u00a0On the heels of the travails of his boss, Col. Sambo Dasuki, Gordon\u00a0Obua, the\u00a0chief security officer (CSO) to President Goodluck Jonathan for five years, has been arrested and detained by the Department \u00a0Security Service (DSS)<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u00a0He was arrested on Thursday in connection with ongoing investigations by the secret police into the nation’s security vote.<\/div>\n
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Obua, is being detained at the Abuja headquarters of the DSS\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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He is believed to have been on hunger strike since Thursday\u00a0to protest\u00a0the conditions of his detention, including a\u00a0lack\u00a0of access to lawyers and his family members.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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He was arrested after honouring an invitation from the agency.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Obua, appointed CSO by Jonathan in 2010, left his position at the end of the former president\u2019s tenure on May 29, although he remains in active service at the security agency.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u00a0Dasuki, who served as National Security Adviser NSA) to Jonathan, is also being investigated over security spending running into billions of dollars.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Dasuki\u2019s\u00a0Abuja residence\u00a0was searched\u00a0by SSS operatives from Thursday to\u00a0Friday as part of the investigation.<\/span><\/div>\n

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