The National Organiser of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Henry Nana Boakye, says he will take legal action against The Fourth Estate over its report alleging the existence of ghost names in National Service postings.

According to Nana Boakye, The Fourth Estate's investigative piece was misleading and based on a flawed methodology.

Speaking on JoyFM Top Story on Wednesday, February 19, he argued that the media organisation inaccurately subtracted figures published by the National Service Scheme (NSS) from those presented to Parliament, leading to erroneous conclusions about alleged ghost names.

Read also: Government discovers 81,885 suspected ghost names on National Service payroll "The formula they use for the declaration that these are ghost names is fraud," Nana Boakye asserted. "We do a summation of all of these figures, we present it to Parliament, so for them to have extracted a figure from Parliament, and then again, to have relied only on the National Service postings publications we make for the July, August postings, is disingenuous, it's recklessness." The controversy stems from The Fourth Estate's claim that in 2018, the NSS published a total of 85,000 postings, while Parliament was presented with a figure of 135,000.