DSS sources say Goodluck's head of security Gordon Obua has died in detention

SUGGESTIONS coming out of the custody of Department of Security Services (DSS) headquarters in Abuja indicate that former President Goodluck Jonathan's chief security officer Gordon Obua has died in custody this morning.

Since last week, Mr Obua had been detained in connection with the investigations into the spending of Nigeria's huge security budget during President Jonathan's tenure of office. Apparently, he had been held in solitary confinement in an underground dungeon and had been denied access to his lawyers, family and doctors on the orders of the new DSS director-general Lawal Daura.

According to one source, Mr Obua’s remains are still in the custody of the DSS and are yet to be handed over to his family.  Last week, Onochie Onwuegbuna, the lead partner at Zeran Legal, issued a statement on behalf of Mr Obua’s family complaining about the conditions under which his client was being detained.

He added that his client was being witch-hunted by the Buhari government and complained that Mr Obua was diabetic and hypertensive. Mr Onwuegbuna added that Mr Obua was being denied his drugs as well as food and water by the DSS.

According to Mr Onwuegbuna, his client was an employee of the DSS and his employers knew about his medical conditions but decided to deny him access to his medicines and a doctor. He added that the Buhari government had marked his client, and other individuals who held offices in President Jonathan’s administration and their arrest was part of a scheme designed to implicate them by all means for phantom crimes or offences.

Non-governmental organisation, the Society for Global Justice had called for the release of the Mr Obua, adding that his detention was indicative of the tyrannical, autocratic and dictatorship tendency of the Muhammadu Buhari administration. Society for Global Justice executive director, Marcus Ogabe, said Mr Obua was not told the reason for which he was being