The Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Dr Dominic Ayine, has disclosed that the former Director General of the National Service Authority (NSA) Osei Assibey Antwi, paid a Member of Parliament (MP) to prevent media coverage of the ghost names scandal.

Addressing a press conference on Monday, March 24, 2025, he explained that eight other suspects who are linked to the NSA had been questioned.

“These matters are still under investigation; I can confirm that the investigation will conclude in the National Service and the Sky Train Scandal by the middle of April for the prosecution to begin.

“With the National Service Scandal, eight suspects have been interrogated and a good number of them have started singing. We now have evidence of payments that were made into the accounts of the top executives of the National Service by private vendors of the scheme. We also have evidence that in November 2024, the CEO of the NSS and others paid a Ghanaian Member of Parliament to kill the story in the media and to defend them,” he stated.

The National Intelligence Bureau launched its investigations following an exposé by The Fourth Estate, which uncovered widespread irregularities within the scheme.

The NIB investigated allegations that thousands of ghost names were used to defraud the state of millions of cedis in allowances.



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