Former DSS Assistant Director Dennis Amachree has revealed in a new book that late military ruler Sani Abacha died at approximately 4:05am during an intimate encounter with a young female pharmacist at Aso Rock, who fled the scene, caught a 7am flight to Lagos, and was later interrogated by Amachree himself — directly contradicting decades of conspiracy theories about the circumstances of his death.
After nearly three decades of conspiracy theories, a former DSS insider says he knows exactly what happened the night Sani Abacha died — and he has put it in a book.
Dennis Amachree, former Assistant Director of Operations and Intelligence at the Lagos DSS command, has detailed Abacha’s final moments in his new memoir ‘DSS @40: My Journey Behind the Shield’, offering what he describes as the definitive account of the military ruler’s death on June 8, 1998, according to The Nation.
Amachree says Abacha died at approximately 4:05am at the Aso Rock Guest House during an intimate encounter with a young female pharmacist — the younger sister of Abacha’s established girlfriend — who had arrived at the villa earlier that night alongside her sibling.
“Abacha’s girlfriend, an Igbo lady, arrived at the Aso Rock Guest House from the Nicon Nogs Hilton Hotel,” the book states. “Abacha was taken with the younger sister, and after a short while, the girlfriend returned to the hotel, leaving the pharmacist alone with the Head of State.”
What happened next was dramatic. “At about 4.05am, as they were getting intimate, the pharmacist realized Abacha had stopped moving. She called out to him, but he was unresponsive and stiff. She checked his pulse; there was none.”
In a panic, she dressed, told a guard outside that “Oga” had requested a car, and was driven to the Hilton Hotel — where she immediately told her sister before heading to Abuja Airport to board the 7am Okada Airline flight to Lagos.
By the time Major Al-Mustapha was informed of Abacha’s condition at 5am, she was already gone. DSS tracked her to Ogudu, Lagos, where Amachree personally interrogated her.
Her first words: “I did not kill him, he died on top of me.”
Amachree said her account debunked the “conspiracy theories and half-truths” — including stories of “imported Indian girls and poisoned apples.”
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