Felix Gyamfi, the Director General of the National Service Authority (NSA) has revealed a shocking development regarding payroll fraud within the National Service Scheme.
The NSA Director General revealed how a renowned public university participated in the NSS payroll fraud by submitting a list of non-existent students for the NSS.
Felix Gyamfi noted that the particular Public university was heavily involved in the malfeasance but declined to reveal the name of the institutions.
According to him, the university included individuals who were not even enrolled as students.
He further stated that the NSS has detailed records of this in their system and is prepared to provide the information if the Auditor General chooses to investigate the matter.
Speaking on TV3’s Hot Issues Felix Gyamfi stated, “I have a list that I put out and then you would see. So, for even the universities that have submitted lists of people and all that, there are numbers attached to it. We could trace to districts and regions where this occurred and all that.”
“I could say to you today that there’s a particular university in Ghana where lots of the malfeasance occurred under their watch more than anywhere else but because when I mention it, it would have legal implications and it would go against the credibility of the university and probably tomorrow I’ll be asked to [sic] I would have told you. I’m not going to mention the name because of it,” he said.
He added, “There are issues that we could deal with administratively, also to protect the sanctity of an otherwise very viable public institution. We have taken the action that we have to take. We want to leave it like that.
“If at any point in time, the National Service Board or the Attorney General is interested in the matter, we will give it out there for them to act on that,” he said.
Felix Gyamfi continued, “They are probably the list that we have to delete. You remember the Media Foundation for West Africa, Suleiman Braimah mentioned that there are people from Kenya, 83-year-old women and men who were doing national service, that was part of those lists. So, the system can detect”.
“So, I’m just saying that to prove to you that we could detect if anything untoward is coming from anywhere. Every aspect of the process is transparent. Of all the universities in Ghana”, he added.
Meanwhile, Attorney General Dr Dominic Ayine has 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.
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The acting Director General of the National Service Scheme (NSS) has alleged that a well known public university played a role in the NSS scandal by submitting several ghost names to the scheme.
According to him, the university included individuals who were not even enrolled as… pic.twitter.com/DEPfUhfQuF
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