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Fmr President Jonathan’s Chief Security Officer Detained By State Security Service, SSS

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Gordon Obua, the chief security officer (CSO) to President Goodluck Jonathan for five years, has been arrested and detained by the State Security Service (SSS), TheCable reports.

He was arrested on Thursday in connection with ongoing investigations by the secret police on the alleged movement of large sums of “security money” in the last administration as well as oil theft in the Niger Delta.

TheCable understands that he went on hunger strike on Saturday 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.

A source said that he is being kept in an underground cell but TheCable could not verify the claim. Obua, appointed CSO by Jonathan in 2010, left his opposition at the end of the former president’s tenure on May 29, although he remains in active service at the security agency.

Sambo 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. Obua, sources told TheCable, is being detained at the Abuja headquarters of the SSS, also known as the Department of State Services (DSS).

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