THE Department of State Services (DSS) has stated that they can neither confirm or dent the arrest of Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in charge of Financial System Stability, Aisha Ahmad.
News Point Nigeria had exclusively reported the arrest of Ahmad by the DSS earlier on Sunday.
A source in the Secret Police had told News Point Nigeria that, the CBN Deputy Governor was being interrogated on how $300 million to complete the acquisition of Union Bank was raised by Titan Bank.
According to the source, the department has also confiscated Ahmad’s electronic gadgets and carted away some documents from her home and office.
When contacted later on Sunday, DSS spokesman, Peter Afunanya, told News Point Nigeria that they cannot confirm or deny that Ahmad is in their custody or has been invited for questioning.
He 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.
This is coming about two months after the secret service arrested Ahmad’s former boss at the CBN, Godwin Emefiele. He has been in the DSS custody since then.
Emefiele, the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, was first charged with possession of a firearm but was later charged with N6.9 billion fraud.
