The lady who was with former military head of state Gen. Sani Abacha when he suddenly died said she didn’t kill him, claiming that he died on top of her during intercourse.
A retired security operative, Dennis Amachree, said the lady, an Igbo pharmacist, made the confession when he interrogated her over Abacha’s mysterious death, the Nation reported.
Amachree, who gave his own version of Abacha’s last moments, clarified that the former military ruler passed on around 4.05 am on June 8, 1998, at the Aso Villa, Abuja, in the presence of the lady during an intimate affair.
Abacha was Nigeria’s military ruler between November 1993 and July 1998, when he suddenly died at 54.
Given the manner of his death, there were speculations about what killed him and the circumstances of his death.
“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,” he stressed.
Amachree, who was the Assistant Director of Operations and Intelligence at the Lagos State SSS Command at the time of Abacha’s death, emphasized that “any other narrative is an act of deceit and a disservice to our countrymen and women.”
He made the revelation in his 348-page book, just released, titled ‘DSS @40: My journey behind the shield.’
The retired Assistant Director of the Department of State Services (DSS) said after witnessing Abacha’s death, the lady pharmacist immediately joined the next flight to Lagos.
‘My team located and brought her to my office. I interrogated her myself. The first thing she said to me was : ‘I did not k!ll him, he d!ed on top of me.’ After her detailed account, I called the Director in Abuja, and she was immediately flown back,” the author said.
