The Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Dr Dominic Ayine, has revealed a sophisticated fraud scheme allegedly led by Gifty Oware-Mensah, involving the misuse of National Service Scheme (NSS) allowances to secure a loan.
Speaking at a press conference in Accra today, Friday, June 13, on the government's anti-corruption initiative, Operation Recover All Loots (ORAL), focusing on the National Service Authority, Dr Ayine said investigations into the scandal have been completed and legal proceedings are set to begin.
He revealed, "Our investigations disclose that several ghost names were deliberately added to the lists submitted to vendors, falsely representing the number of service personnel".
He explained that after vendors received inflated payments from these ghost names, certain NSS officials approached them to retrieve the excess funds: "When these vendors eventually received the payment, their directors and staff would then contact the vendors whose account had received payment, meet them, and collect the additional money that had been added to the vendor's payment." Dr Ayine further disclosed: "For instance, we have conclusively established that after collecting these funds, some of the suspects, such as Gaise Nyarko and Oteng, handed them over to suspect Osei Asibey Antwi in cash, and on some occasions deposited the cash into his bank account." He outlined a broader fraudulent scheme allegedly masterminded by Gifty Oware-Mensah, a former Deputy Executive Director of the NSA.
