Former Assistant Director, Department of State Services, DSS, Dennis Amachree, has 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 as he claimed.
Amachree threw the challenge in reaction to 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.
Al-Mustapha had described Amachree’s account as false, urging Nigerians not to believe it.
However, in a swift response the retired DSS chief said Al-Mustapha should present evidence rather than merely rejecting his account.
“If he says what I wrote is false, let him produce the CCTV footage of what happened,” Amachree said.
According to him, Al-Mustapha’s response should be based on verifiable facts instead of personal attacks.
Amachree added that Al-Mustapha describing his account as false does not invalidate the findings contained in his memoir.
The former DSS boss further defended his credentials, noting that he retired from the DSS as an Assistant Director, a rank he said is equivalent to a Brigadier in the Nigerian Army.
“I retired as an Assistant Director, which in army terms is equivalent to a Brigadier, while Al-Mustapha retired as a Major,” he added.
In the 348-page memoir, Amachree claimed that Abacha died at about 4:05 a.m. on June 8, 1998, after suffering what he described as a coitus-induced cardiac arrest inside the Presidential Villa Guest House in Abuja.
