Breaking: Jonathan’s CSO reportedly dies in DSS underground cell

Former Chief Security Officer to immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan, Mr. Gordon Obua has reportedly died in the custody of the Department of Security Services (DSS). 

According to a report of The Trent online newspaper , Obua died hours ago in Yellow House, the National Headquarters of the DSS in Abuja, where he had been detained since Thursday, July 16, 2015.

An insider source at the DSS Headquarters, however, denied the story saying : “The man is not dead but in our custody.”

If the reports of his death were to be true, Obua was arrested when he honoured an invitation by the DSS and had been in solitary confinement until his death. Obua, 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 Daura. The DSS (also called SSS) serves as Nigeria’s secret police.

Full Security in Aso Rock as Gun Battle Erupts at Abuja SSS Headquarters - Sunday Punch

Security was quickly beefed up around the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Sunday morning as heavy shootings were recorded at the neighbouring headquarters of the State Security Service known as Yellow House. The SSS headquarters is located behind the Villa.

The access gate to the seat of power through the Fire Service office in Asokoro was quickly shut while more heavily armed soldiers were seen at the gate leading to the Villa through the Federal Secretariat.  Military helicopters were also seen hovering the sky at the time of filing this report.

BREAKING NEWS: Gunfire exchanges at Abuja SSS headquarters - Premium Times

Heavy gunfire around presidential villa, SSS Yellow House headquarters

There have been heavy gunfire exchanges around the vicinity of Nigeria’s presidential palace and the headquarters of the Department of State Services in the Asokoro District of  Abuja in the past one hour, security sources and residents of the area said.

The expansive headquarters of the State Security Service, popularly known as Yellow House, is almost adjacent one of the remote gates of the presidential villa.

Residents of the nearby Aso Drive Area said the gunshots were either coming out of the SSS headquarters or the presidential villa.