The information gathered suggests the former Director General of the National Service Authority, Osei Assibey Antwi has been picked up by the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB).
According to the reports, Osei Assibey Antwi was picked up in the early hours of today 21 March 2025.
Reports suggest the former Akufo-Addo appointee is now in the NIB custody and is set to be questioned.
The information gathered suggests Osei Assibey Antwi’s arrest has to do with the National Service Service (NSS) ghost name scandal.
Osei Assibey Antwi is the latest to be picked up by the NIB after Gifty Oware-Mensah, the Former Deputy Executive Director of the National Service Authority (NSS) was also picked up and later released by the National Investigations Bureau (NIB).
Gifty Oware-Mensah was detained in connection with the NIB probe in the NSS ghost names scandal.
According to reports, she was taken into custody on Friday, March 7, 2025, and has since been denied bail.
Yaw Danso a National Service Authority (NSA) Accountant was also detained but later released by the NIB over the NSS ghost names scandal.
Kwaku Ohene Gyan a former deputy director of the NSA was also some weeks ago detained and later released after questioning by the NIB.
The NIB picking and detaining them comes after President John Dramani Mahama’s order to the National Investigations Bureau (NIB) to investigate the NSS ‘ghost names’ scandal.
81,885 suspected ghost names on the payroll of the NSS following a head count of active National Service personnel at the behest of the Minister for Finance as a prerequisite for the clearance of allowance arrears dating back to August 2024.
The information gathered reveals at least more individuals have been named as persons of interest in the NSS ghost name scandal.
Honourable Mustapha Ussif, Akufo-Addo’s first NSS CEO, Henry Nana Boakye a board member of the NSS, Gifty Oware, Kwaku Ohene Djan, Osei Assibey Antwi are among the 5 fingered in the NSS ghost scandal.
Reports about 17 persons could likely be invited for questioning as the NSS ghost name scandal started from 2017 to 2024 when they were exposed.
Meanwhile, President John Dramani Mahama has directed that culprits of the National Service ghost names scandal be declared wanted and their assets frozen.
According to John Mahama some of the culprits of the NSS scandal have fled the country.
Delivering his first State of the Nation Address in his second term to Parliament on Thursday, February 27 stated, “I have directed that culprits be declared wanted and their assets frozen. Such brazen stealing of state resources should not go unpunished”.
