President John Dramani Mahama has ordered the National Investigations Bureau(NIB) to launch an investigation into the National Service Authority operations under the previous government, following the ghost name on payroll scandal.
During a head count of active National Service personnels at the behest of the Minister for Finance as a prerequisite for the clearance of allowance arrears, dating back to August 2024, up to 81, 885 suspected ghost names were found to be on the National Service payroll. An amount of GHC 226,019,224 was released to settle 98,145 actual service personnels out of the 180,030 names presented by the authority.
President Mahama has therefore ordered the NIB to investigate the matter for clarifications.
He also tasked the new management to carry out urgent reforms to prevent the recurrence of the the phenomenon.
Written by: Cindy Adasah Boamah
