The national service authority has secured an injunction against the release of a latest investigative piece by media outlets the
Fourth Estate on the authority titled “The NSS scandal digitalization and more. “
In a teaser on its intention to roll out its findings this week executive director of the media foundation for West Africa Sulemana Braimah in a Facebook post alleged that “On Friday,
Gifty Oware-Aboagye, one of the Deputies at the National Service Authority (formerly National Service Scheme), sent out a message to staff telling them that the announced upcoming revelations by The Fourth Estate this week, is just speculation.
I thought by now she would have known that The Fourth Estate does not put out speculations. Well, we will leave it for the public to judge when the revelations start rolling this week.”
But before the release the national service authority has gone to court to stop it.
“IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that, the Defendant/Respondents, its privies, servants, agents, assigns and interested parties are hereby restrained from putting out any purported investigative report concerning the Plaintiff/Applicant and its staff until their side of the subject matter of the investigations is heard and included in the said report,” the injunction document stated.
On Friday, November 29, The Fourth Estate announced that from this week, it would be publishing a series of investigative reports on the National Service Authority.
However, the NSA filed an injunction application today, December 2, and secured a court order on the blind side of The Fourth Estate to prevent the publication this week.
