Release Gordon Obuah Or Charge Him To Court, Lawyer Tells DSS

Lawyer of Gordon Obuah, former President Goodluck Jonathan’s chief security officer, Andrew Itsekiri, has told the Director General of the DSS, Lawan Daura, to either charge Mr. Obuah to court or release him “if the SSS has any incriminating evidence of commission of crime against him” rather than “detain him in the Gestapo like fashion.”

Gordon Obuah, ex CSO to former president, Goodluck Jonathan

In a statement made available to NAIJ, the lawyer said Mr. Obuah’s detention is placing life-threatening strain on his health stressing that he who is diabetic and has a serious case of high blood pressure is being “sadistically” denied water, food and life sustaining medications.

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“Nigerians should tell Lawan Daura the director general of the SSS to release Mr Gordon Obuah, the immediate past CSO to the former president Jonathan, immediately or to charge him to court if the SSS has any incriminating evidence of commission of crime against him.

“We can tell the public categorically that as we write he has not been confronted with any allegation, neither was he given an opportunity to respond to any allegation before he was taken into custody” the lawyer said.

According to Andrew Itsekiri, Obua’s “ordeal began about a week preceding his eventual arrest last week Thursday when the director general of the SSS Lawan Daura sadistically on a daily basis requested that he should report to the SSS headquarters to respond to allegations known only to Lawan Daura and which he repeatedly failed to disclose to him despite repeated demands by the erstwhile CSO.

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On each of the 7 days preceding his arrest he would report to he SSS headquarters at about 8am in the morning and released to go back home at about 11pm without being confronted with any allegation.

At a stage Lawan Daura requested from him if he Lawan should investigate the imaginary allegation or if a junior officer should and the consistent response of the erstwhile CSO was for him to at least know the allegation if any to enable him respond. Lawan Daura never confronted him with any petition until he was taken into custody when he reported last Thursday.”

The DSS is also investigating the country’s former national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki and conducted at Mr. Dasuku’s residence in Abuja and his family house in Sokoto simultaneously on Thursday and Friday.

It would be recalled that on Tuesday morning, report surfaced on social media that the former security officer to Nigeria’s immediate past president, Goodluck Jonathan, had died in the custody of Department of State Security (DSS).

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