President John Dramani Mahama has ordered an immediate investigation into the operations of the National Service Authority after the discovery of 81,885 suspected ghost names on its payroll.
The National Investigations Bureau (NIB) has been tasked with uncovering how these fraudulent entries were created under the previous NPP administration.
The fraudulent names were uncovered during a recent headcount of active National Service personnel, initiated by the Minister for Finance as a prerequisite for clearing outstanding allowance arrears dating back to August 2024.
The exercise revealed that while the previous management of the Authority had presented 180,030 names for payment, only 98,145 were verified as actual personnel.
