Former DSS Assistant Director Dennis Amachree says his investigation convinced him that General Sani Abacha died of a heart attack, not poisoning, as widely believed.
Nearly three decades after the death of former Head of State General Sani Abacha, a former senior intelligence officer has reopened the debate over what really happened on that fateful day.
Dennis Amachree, a former Assistant Director of the Department of State Services (DSS), has dismissed long-standing claims that Abacha was poisoned, insisting that all evidence available to investigators pointed to a heart attack.
Speaking in an interview monitored on TVC News by Daily Post, Amachree revealed that he personally questioned a woman who was reportedly with Abacha shortly before his death in June 1998.
According to him, the woman’s account remains the only direct eyewitness testimony from inside the room where the former military ruler spent his final moments.
“The girl who was with him when he died was later brought to me for questioning. When she entered my office, the first thing she said was, ‘I did not kill him.’ She was very direct about it.
“I had to believe her because she had no reason to lie to me. I did not create an atmosphere that would make her feel threatened.
“Her account remains the only true eyewitness account of what happened because nobody else was in that room with them.
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