Retired Assistant Director of the Department of State Services (DSS), Dennis Amachree, has challenged former 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 if he disputes the account contained in his memoir.
Amachree made the challenge while reacting to Al-Mustapha’s dismissal 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 and urged Nigerians not to believe it.
Speaking in a telephone interview with The Nation, the retired intelligence officer 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.
