Abacha died of heart attack, wasn’t poisoned – Ex-DSS director

A erstwhile Assistant Director of the Department of State Services (DSS), Dennis Amachree, has said erstwhile Head of State, General Sani Abacha, died of a bosom attack, contrary to wide claims that helium was poisoned.

Amachree insisted that grounds pointed to the information that Abacha died of a bosom attack.

Abacha died connected June 8, 1998, portion serving arsenic Nigeria’s Head of State, and determination person been antithetic accounts of his death.

In an interrogation connected TVC News, Amachree said investigators questioned a pistillate who was reportedly with Abacha soon earlier helium died, describing her relationship arsenic the lone nonstop eyewitness grounds of what happened successful the room.

According to him, the pistillate arrived astatine the residence with her sister, who was said to cognize the erstwhile Head of State.

“The miss who was with him erstwhile helium died was aboriginal brought to maine for questioning. When she entered my office, the archetypal happening she said was, ‘I did not termination him.’ She was precise nonstop astir it.

“I had to judge her due to the fact that she had nary crushed to prevarication to me. I did not make an ambiance that would marque her consciousness threatened.

“Her relationship remains the lone existent eyewitness relationship of what happened due to the fact that cipher other was successful that country with them.

“From everything she told maine and fro...