The Fourth Estate reports that officials at the National Service Authority (NSA) circumvented mandatory validation processes for payments of allowances to national service personnel, enabling thousands of nonexistent names to be added to the payroll.

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This made it easy to use the ghost names to drain the public purse of millions of Ghana cedis in allowances intended for national service personnel. A whopping GHC2.2 billion is reported to have been siphoned since 2018 till date.

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"The Fourth Estate has been investigating allegations of corruption at the NSA for some months and has discovered evidence of fraudulent addition of nonexistent names, otherwise referred to as ghost names, to the list of personnel deployed annually since 2018," it reported.

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Media Foundation for West Africa Executive Director Sulemana Braimah has exposed a Kenyan, Emmanuel Mutio, but with the name Kwame Donkor in the National Service system. The susepct, believed to be 72 years, per data in the system, is a Human Resource Manager.

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Some 226 students with the same name, same programme and same university identified in the National Service system in the recent scandal which is yet to be holistically probed upon the directive of President John Mahama after a report submission by the Operation Retrieve All Loot (ORAL).

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