{"id":1756,"date":"2023-09-10T14:35:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T14:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2023-09-10T14:35:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T14:35:38","slug":"dss-grills-cbn-deputy-governor-aisha-ahmad-over-alleged-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/09\/10\/dss-grills-cbn-deputy-governor-aisha-ahmad-over-alleged-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"DSS Grills CBN Deputy Governor Aisha Ahmad Over Alleged Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Idowu Patrick\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aisha Ahmad, the Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has been subjected to questioning by the Department of State Services (DSS) in connection with allegations of financial impropriety involving alleged fraudulent acquisition of shares in Polaris Bank and Titan Bank (Union Bank)<\/p>\n<p>DSS spokesman, Peter Afunanya, told Channels Television on Sunday that he could not confirm or deny that Ahmad is in their custody or has been invited for questioning.<\/p>\n<p>The DSS, Nigeria&#8217;s domestic intelligence agency, initiated the inquiry into the financial affairs of the CBN Deputy Governor following allegations of fraudulent activities.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, according to reports making the rounds, Aisha is also being interrogated on how $300 million was raised by Titan Bank to complete the acquisition of Union Bank in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the development, Afunaya stated that in the course of any investigation, people can be invited for questioning, and those invitations are carried out within the ambit of the law.<\/p>\n<p>This is coming about two months after the secret service arrested Ahmad\u2019s former boss at the CBN, Godwin Emefiele. He has been in the DSS custody since then.<\/p>\n<p>While details regarding the nature and scope of the alleged fraud remain confidential, sources close to the matter have confirmed that the DSS has been conducting a thorough investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idowu Patrick\u00a0 &nbsp; Aisha Ahmad, the Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has been subjected to questioning by the Department of State Services (DSS) in connection with allegations of financial impropriety involving alleged fraudulent acquisition of shares in Polaris Bank and Titan Bank (Union Bank) DSS spokesman, Peter Afunanya, told Channels Television [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1757,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions\/1757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}