A former Assistant Director of the Department of State Services, Dennis Amachree, has claimed that late Gen. Sani Abacha died from a cardiac arrest during an intimate encounter with his girlfriend. He recently made the claims in his newly released memoir, DSS @40: My Journey Behind the Shield, and Nigerians have been reacting.
Dismissing long-standing conspiracy theories surrounding the circumstances of the late dictator’s death, Amachree stated that the late military ruler suffered the fatal episode at about 4:05 a.m. at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
He added that the woman who was with Abacha at the time panicked after discovering he had become unresponsive.
His words, “At approximately 2.40 am, shortly after Gen. Useni left, Abacha’s girlfriend, an Igbo lady (name withheld), arrived at the Aso Rock Guest House from the Nicon Noga Hilton Hotel.
With her was her younger sister, a pharmacist who was in Abuja for a conference. The Head of State had just bought his girlfriend a new SUV, and they decided to stop by to say hello to ‘Oga’.
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.
At about 4.05 am, as they were getting intimate, the pharmacist realised Abacha had stopped moving. She called out to him, but he was unresponsive and stiff. She checked his pulse; there was none.
In a state of panic, she quickly dressed and left the guest house, telling the soldier on guard duty that ‘Oga’ had asked for a car to take her back to her hotel.
My team located and brought her to my office. I interrogated her myself. The first thing she said to me was: ‘I did not kill him, he died on top of me.’ After her detailed account, I called the Director in Abuja, and she was immediately flown back.
The lady pharmacist’s account, on whom Abacha apparently had a coitus-induced cardiac arrest, remains the true position, and puts an end to the conspiracy theories and half-truths that have gone viral.”
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