Abacha didn’t die having sex, Al-Mustapha refutes ex-DSS operative’s claim… says he has footage of incident

Al-Mustapha: Abacha didn’t die during intercourse with lady — I have CCTV footage

Hamza Al-Mustapha, former chief security officer to Sani Abacha, late military head of state, says he has CCTV footage of the ex-president’s final moments, dismissing a recent publication that he died during an intimate encounter with a woman.

Abacha was Nigeria’s military ruler from November 1993 to June 1998.

Al-Mustapha has repeatedly claimed that Abacha died from a handshake with a security operative of a visiting dignitary.

Speaking to journalists in Kaduna, Al-Mustapha described the account by Dennis Amachree, a retired Department of State Services (DSS) operative, as untrue.

He alleged that the author was influenced to put forward the narrative.

“The boy was asked to write the lies by others. I have all the CCTV footages of what happened in my custody, so what he said are not true,” Al-Mustapha said.

The former CSO urged the public to disregard the allegations, saying it was wrong to make such claims about someone who could no longer respond.

“Just ignore his lies. It’s bad to say such things about someone that is dead,” he said.

“But I want to assure you that the author of the book is acting out a script. He is not acting alone.

“At the appropriate time, I will respond to these lies. You don’t tell your enemies your plans.”

The controversy followed claims made by Amachree in his 348-page memoir, ‘DSS @ 40: My Journey Behind the Shield’, in which he said Abacha died in the early hours of June 8, 1998, after suffering what he described as a coitus-induced cardiac arrest.

Amachree detailed that the incident occurred inside the Aso Rock Presidential Villa Guest House and involved a Nigerian pharmacist.

“The lady pharmacist on whom Abacha apparently had a coitus-induced cardiac arrest, remains the true position and puts an end to the conspiracy theories and half-truths that have gone viral,” Amachree wrote.

Al-Mustapha

Abacha died barely a month before the passing of MKO Abiola, winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election.

Abiola was in prison custody during the Abacha junta for alleged insurrection and treason following the annulment of the presidential election.