Retired Assistant Director, Department of State Services, DSS, Dennis Amachree, has countered Tony Eluemunor’s accounts on the death of former military head of state, Sani Abacha.
He said the accounts from Eluemunor on the death of Abacha are completely wrong as the journalist mentioned him in his account of the story.
This was after Amachree, had dared ex-Chief Security Officer to late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha (retd.), to produce CCTV footage of the military ruler’s final hours.
Amachree threw the challenge in reaction to Al-Mustapha’s refutal of claims in his newly released book, ‘DSS @40: My Journey Behind the Shield’, in which he alleged that Abacha died after suffering a coitus-induced cardiac arrest in the early hours of June 8, 1998.
DAILY POST recalls that Al-Mustapha had described Amachree’s account as false, urging Nigerians not to believe it.
Speaking on Arise News, Amachree said, “One thing I have to tell you is this: I am not discussing the full investigation, where even the ladies were interrogated when they came to Abuja, and when they were interrogated and then detained, and then of course after the custody, how they came to reach the decision of releasing them.
“That’s not what I’m going to tell you. Tony Eluemunor, I think that guy wants to be a secret agent. He wants to practice some kind of intelligence work. But I think alll his details were very, very wrong. I know he wants to come up with something to
