Twelve top former officials of the National Service Authority (NSA) will be arraigned before the Accra High Court in the first week of July for allegedly using ghost names on the National Service Scheme (NSS) payroll to siphon more than GH¢548 million between 2018-2024.
Dr Dominic Ayine, the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, addressing a press conference in Accra, last Friday said the suspects would be charged with stealing, conspiracy to steal, willfully causing financial loss to the state, using public office for profit, obtaining public property by false statements, conspiracy to commit money laundering and money laundering.
Dr Ayine said the alleged "criminal enterprise" was carried by the former officials and their accomplices in the private sector known as vendors or service providers.
The Member of Parliament for Yagaba Kubori, Mustapha Ussif and Messrs Yussif and Osei Assibey Antwi, both former Directors of NSA, would be prosecuted together with Gifty Oware-Mensah, a former deputy Executive Director, Kweku Ohene Gyan, a former Executive Director of Operations, Abraham Bismark Gaisie, Head of Deployment, and Eric Nyarko, Head of Accounts.
