A leading member of the Movement for Change, Solomon Owusu, has urged former National Service Authority (NSA) officials, Gifty Oware-Mensah and Osei Assibey Antwi, to reveal the names of other individuals allegedly involved in the ongoing NSA corruption scandal.
According to Owusu, the magnitude of the alleged financial impropriety suggests that the two could not have acted alone.
Speaking on a panel discussion on Angel TV on October 14, 2025, he therefore appealed to them to disclose any accomplices to ensure full accountability.
“The money involved in the NSA scandal is enough to open a bank…some of the banks that collapsed didn’t even have the minimum capital requirement, and in Ghana, you need GH¢400 million to open a bank. So that means Assibey is a bank plus GH¢100 million,” he quipped.
“Do you think Assibey and Gifty alone spent such huge sums? I will plead with them; they shouldn’t die alone or take the blame alone. They should mention names so we can reduce some of these things for them,” he added.
Owusu made these comments while reacting to reports that the Attorney-General’s Office had filed charges against the two former top officials for their alleged involvement in a massive financial scandal at the NSA.
The Office of the Attorney-General and Ministry of Justice has filed criminal charges against the former Executive Director of the National Service Authority, Osei Assibey Antwi, and the former Deputy Executive Director, Gifty Oware-Mensah, over their alleged roles in a scheme that defrauded the state of about GH¢653 million.
According to court documents filed at the Accra High Court, the two are accused of orchestrating separate but related fraudulent schemes that involved ghost names on the national service payroll and fake bank loan transactions.
Osei Assibey Antwi faces 14 charges, including causing financial loss to the state, stealing and money laundering.
Former NSA Deputy Director in trouble over GH¢31 million loan scheme
He is alleged to have authorised the payment of allowances to over 60,000 non-existent national service personnel, causing a loss of GH¢500,861,744.02 to the state.
In addition, he is accused of stealing GH¢8.26 million between August 2023 and May 2024 and withdrawing over GH¢106 million from the NSA’s Kumawu Farm Project account without investing any of it in the project.
Investigators say he transferred GH¢8.26 million into his personal e-zwich account, knowing the funds were proceeds of crime. The total value of the offences attributed to him stands at approximately GH¢615,117,744.02.
Meanwhile, Gifty Oware-Mensah has been charged with five counts, including stealing, willfully causing financial loss to the state, using public office for profit and money laundering.
As head of the NSA’s Finance and Procurement departments, she allegedly created a fake company, Blocks of Life Consult, to generate a list of 9,934 ghost names from the NSA’s database.
She then allegedly secured a GH¢31.5 million loan from the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB), claiming her company had supplied goods to service personnel. The funds were paid directly into her company’s account, with over GH¢22.9 million later transferred to another company where she served as a director.
“The money involved in the NSA Scandal is enough to open a bank”
-Solomon Owusu on the alleged National Service Authority ghost names and fraud scandal involving former Deputy Director General, Gifty Oware-Mensah and the Former Executive Director, Osei Assibey. pic.twitter.com/P2Z2rFWX7p
— SIKAOFFICIAL🦍 (@SIKAOFFICIAL1) October 14, 2025
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