I don't know what to make of this story,They are reporting Gordon Obuah has died in custody!
The reason why i am so confused is,Obuah's lawyer had only just released a statement yesterday about how Gordon Obuah was being tortured and may die in detention.
He said Obuah has been in a terrible state of health while no doctor was allowed to move close to him, thus indicating that the SSS either wanted him die in detention or preferred to torture him to admit all allegations levelled against him.
The lawyer said since Obuah had been taken in custody, he had been subjected subjected to both
physical and emotional torture, while being denied food and medication, notwithstanding being a diabetic patient.
He said the Jonathan’s former CSO was being deprived of food, water and his medicines even though he he is diabetic while he also suffers from serious high blood pressure.
“He said it was clear that the SSS has the motive of programming Obuah for death in detention, or rather embark on torturing him to admit to crimes he knows nothing about.
And now this is what they are reporting below...
Former Chief Security Officer to President Goodluck Jonathan, Mr. Gordon Obuah, has passed away in the custody of Department of Security Services (DSS) in its Abuja Headquarters where he had been detained since Thursday, July 16, 2015 on the orders of President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian online newspaper, The Trent is reporting.Sources who have been monitoring the situation have confirmed Obuah’s passing. He was arrested on Thursday when he honoured an invitation by the DSS.
Obuah, who was being detained by the DSS in an underground dungeon for undisclosed reasons was being denied access to his lawyers, family, and his doctors on the orders of the new Director General of the DSS, Lawal Musa, which serves as Nigeria’s secret police.
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Our sources say Obua’s remains are still in the custody of the DSS at the time of filing this report. He was held without charges filed against him.
On July 18, 2015, Onochie Onwuegbuna, the lead partner at Zeran Legal, has issued a press statement on behalf of Obua’s family complaining about the conditions in which his client was being detained and said that his client was being witch-hunted by the Buhari government. He said his client was diabetic and hypertensive and was being denied his drugs as well as food and water by the DSS.
Obua, until his death, was an employee of the SSS and his employer knew about his medical conditions but decided, in impunity, to deny him access to his medicines and doctor, his lawyer alleged.
Onwuegbuna said that the Buhari government had ‘marked’ his client, and other individuals who held offices in Jonathan’s administration and the arrest of his client was a scheme, “in other to implicate them by all means for phantom crimes or offences”.
A non-governmental organisation, the Society for Global Justice had issued a statement on Obua’s continued detention at the DSS, on Saturday calling for the release of the former Chief Security Officer.
Executive director of the group, Mr. Marcus Ogabe confirmed that Obua was detained at the SSS headquarters in Abuja since Thursday.
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The group also said the continued detention of Obua is indicative of “the tyrannical, autocratic and dictatorship tendency of the Muhammadu Buhari administration”
If Gordon Obuah is really dead,this would be terrible.I am all for getting rid of corruption,but not this way.We can't be having suspects die in custody in 2015! No way.
I hope this report is not true.
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