Former DSS director confirms Abacha died of a heart attack, not poisoning.

Former Assistant Director of the Department of State Services (DSS), Dennis Amachree, has stated that former Head of State General Sani Abacha died of a heart attack, disputing widespread claims that he was poisoned.

Amachree said evidence pointed to a heart attack as the cause of Abacha’s death.

Abacha died on 8 June 1998 while serving as Nigeria’s Head of State, and various accounts have circulated about the circumstances.

In an interview with TVC News, Amachree explained that investigators questioned a woman who was reportedly with Abacha shortly before his death. He described her testimony as the only direct eyewitness account of what transpired in the room.

According to Amachree, the woman arrived at the residence with her sister, who was said to know the former Head of State.

“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,” he said.

“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.”

“From everything she told me and from what I gathered during the investigation, I strongly believe it was a heart attack. She did not know he was dead while she was with him, but later realised something was wrong. In my assessment, his death was the result of a heart attack,” he stated.

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