Ebenezer Nii Narh Nartey, a former Member of Parliament for Ablekuma Central has quizzed why former Deputy Director of the Authority, Gifty Oware-Mensah would buy a $100,000 watch.
Speaking on Joy Prime Ebenezer Nii Narh Nartey stated, “If not to impress people, why would anyone buy a watch for $100,000? If it’s true, you buy a bag and go around displaying it”.
If I had that kind of money, I’d rather go to my hometown, invest it, and build a CHPS compound to take care of my people, and at the end of the day, gain something meaningful from it,” he stated.
He added, “Some of them would stay away from work for three or four days, not because they didn’t want to work, but because they didn’t have money for transportation”.
His comment comes after the Attorney General exposed Gifty Oware-Mensah for shockingly using NSS allowances as collateral.
According to Dr Dominic Ayine, the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Gifty Oware-Mensah used the NSS allowances as collateral to secure a 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.
