Gifty Oware-Mensah, the former Deputy Executive Director of the National Service Authority (NSS) has been exposed for shockingly using NSS allowances as collateral.
According to the Dr. Dominic Ayine, the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Gifty Oware-Mensah used the NSS allowances as collateral to secure GH¢30 million ADB loan.
Gifty Oware-Aboagye has been fingered deeply in the NSS ghost name scandal, according to reports she oversaw the payment of some allowances into the accounts of 81,885 ghost service personnel.
The AG explained, “Gifty Oware-Mensah created and executed a meticulously detailed plan using National Service allowances as security to obtain a loan of GH¢30,698,218 from the ADB”.
“She achieved this by using other people’s information to register a company called Blocks of Life Consult without their knowledge”.
“She presented Blocks of Life Consult through a middleman and used her husband to act as one of the representatives of the said company. She told ADB that the company specialises in supplying home appliances to NSS personnel and proposed that ADB finance the company to enable it to supply these items on a higher purchase basis to the service personnel,” he added.
Dr. Dominic Ayine, further revealed that NSS ghost names suspect siphoned a whopping GHC548 million.
According to Dr Dominic Ayine, a full docket on investigations into the National Service scandal is ready and has been presented to his office.
He revealed that the former National Service Authority (NSA) under the former government ran a criminal enterprise which siphoned huge sums of public funds including over GHC548 million.
The AG revealed that twelve suspects will be charged in the National Service scandal.
According to the Attorney General, former Executive Director of the National Service Scheme, Mustapha Ussif, former Executive Director of the National Service Authority (NSA) Osei Assibey Antwi and former Deputy Director in charge of Finance and Administration, Gifty Oware-Mensah.
Speaking to the media on Friday, June 13, 2025, Dr Ayine stated, “I am here today to announce that I have received a full docket compiled by diligent and hardworking investigators at the BNI”.
“NIB officials and AG’s Office have worked to develop docket after investigation into the NSS scandal… We can confirm that over GHC 548 million [was] lost due to the criminal enterprise at NSS. Ghana lost over GHC 548 million through criminal enterprise operating at the National Service Authority.”
“In total we can confirm from our evidence in the docket and from the investigations that a whooping GHC5,48, 333, 542. 64.
“It was discovered that around 81, 885 were ghost names. Our investigations have revealed a criminal enterprise whose network covers the entire country. It was discovered that top officials and their accomplices in the private sector were involved,” he noted.
Meanwhile, Dr Justice Srem Sai, the Deputy Attorney General had earlier revealed that the majority of the suspects implicated in the fraud at the National Service Secretariat (NSS) are willing to return over ¢500 million loots.
According to the Deputy Attorney General, the state is open to retrieving the funds and using some of the suspects as witnesses in court.
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Gifty Oware-Mensah used NSS allowances as collateral to secure a GH¢ 30 million loan from ADB – Dominic Ayine
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