By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North

ABUJA — Former Chief  Security Officer to immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan, Gordon Obua, has been hospitalised, barely a few days after being freed from the Department of State Services, DSS, detention in Abuja.

Vanguard learnt from competent sources that Obua is currently receiving medical attention at the National Hospital, Abuja for undisclosed ailment.

He was released from the DSS cell last Tuesday after being detained for three days at the headquarters of the agency in Abuja for undisclosed reasons believed to be unconnected with his tenure as the CSO to Jonathan.

Efforts to speak with Obua proved abortive as he was said to be too weak to entertain any visitor at the time one of our correspondents tried to reach his bedside.

He is suffering  from trauma

A family source, who spoke to our correspondent in Abuja, gave an insight into what might have given rise to the security officer’s condition.

The source, who is very close to the former president, said that Obua was suffering from the trauma he was exposed to in the hands of his employers who detained him for three days in an underground cubicle cell.

The source said: “You know that Obua is diabetic and hypertensive. So he suffered from the trauma arising from three days of hunger strike which he embarked upon against his solitary confinement in cubicles underground.”

The family source said it was not clear how soon their breadwinner might recover from his medical condition given his current state of health but would not give details.

But the DSS was yet to respond to the development as at press time.

It will be recalled that the DSS arrested Obua for possible information it might use to press charges against the former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki.

Informed security sources said it was not a coincidence that Obua was arrested almost at the same time when operatives of the DSS stormed Dasuki’s homes in Abuja and Sokoto in search of ‘information’ on their operations while in office.