Kwaku Krobea Asante, an investigative journalist with The Fourth Estate, has revealed that regional directors of the National Service Authority (NSA) were consistently sidelined in the system.
The revelations stem from an investigative report by The Fourth Estate in November 2024.
Speaking on The Point of View with Bernard Avle on Channel One TV, Kwaku Krobea Asante explained that the fraudulent activities within the NSA were centralized, bypassing regional directors.
“A part of it is that we speak to some of the regional directors, a system that is supposed to help them do good work is being sidestepped.
“A regional director tells us that every time he goes into the system where he has to confirm people who would be paid allowances, and he would go in there are 995 names already confirmed in his name.”
He also identified the officials who oversaw the National Service Authority (NSA) during former President Akufo-Addo’s tenure when the ghost names scandal began.
Krobea Asante named Henry Nana Boakye, Osei Assibey Antwi, Mustapha Ussif, Gifty Oware, and Kwaku Ohene Djan as the officials in charge of the NSA at the time of the fraudulent payments.
However, he clarified that the report does not directly accuse these former NSA officials of embezzlement but highlights their responsibility in overseeing the scheme when the irregularities occurred.
“The period that we focused our investigations on, you have Henry Nana Boakye – Nana B, you have Hon. Mustapha Ussif, the former Sports Minister, the immediate past Director General, Osei Assibey Antwi, Gifty Oware Mensah, who was also a deputy director, then you have one gentleman called Kwaku Ohene Djan, who was also a deputy director for the NSA.
“Our point is not necessarily to say that these are people have stolen money, so to say, but our point is that these were people who were in charge of the scheme.”
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