Two former senior officers of the National Service Authority (NSA) have denied any wrongdoing after a publication by the Fourth Estate alleged that the officers were responsible for "ghost" names and other financial malfeasances at the NSA during their tenure.
The publication accused the former NSA officers of various irregularities related to enrolment, verification, and payment processes within the Authority.
Former Director-General, Osei Assibey Antwi and former Executive Director, Mustapha Ussif have described the publication by Fourth Estate as "laden with a misapprehension of the enrolment, verification and payment processes of the National Service Authority." They said the publication is a "selective omission of information, calculated to achieve contrived conclusions of imputing wrong doing to former officers." The publication claimed a significant discrepancy between the figures submitted to Parliament for budgetary purposes and those available to the public.
The former officers clarified that the Fourth Estate relied solely on figures from the general posting done in September, omitting two cohorts of nursing trainees and one cohort of teacher trainees.
