Contrary to widespread speculations, a retired Assistant Director of the Department of State Service DSS , Dennis Amachree ,has said that former maximum ruler, General Sani Abacha may have died of heart-related complications while he was with a female friend.
The Source reports that late General Abacha who presided over the affairs of Nigeria between 1993 and June 1998 died while in company with some female guests at the Presidential Villa.
He was widely believed to have died under hazy circumstances, with not a few suspecting conspiracy.
But while speaking on his newly published book during an interview session with the TVC News, on Thursday, Amachree dismissed the conspiracy theory, and pointed out that available evidence suggest heart attack as the primary cause of death.
According to the former DSS Director, most of the accounts on the death of the former Head of State are mere conjectures and rumours, not necessarily based on any verifiable first hand knowledge of what actually transpired.
He emphasized that most people who have offered suggestions on the possible cause(s) of the death of Abacha had done so from a complete uninformed positions.
“A lot of people have come up with different stories on what happened. But they are not aware of the facts of the matter.
“They have been looking at events from the outside, and, thereafter, drawing conclusions.
“Some have even claimed that certain actions caused his death, but they are not doctors and, therefore, cannot with certainty say what killed him”, he stated.
Amachree particularly noted that in the wake of the incident in 1998, investigators, including himself, had interrogated a young woman who was with the late Head of State at the time of his death