Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has revealed that Gifty Oware-Mensah, a former Deputy Executive Director of the National Service Authority (NSA), has returned to Ghana and is prepared to cooperate with investigations by the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) into allegations of at least 80,000 ghost names on the authority’s payroll.
The Effutu MP and lawyer said Mrs. Oware-Mensah arrived in Ghana on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, and would readily appear before the NIB in the company of her lawyers.
He stated, “I am aware that Gifty arrived this afternoon. I have been in touch with her; she’s here in Ghana. Her lawyers are in contact with the National Intelligence Bureau, and I am sure she is going to make herself available. Whatever the state investigation authorities have, they would proceed within due process.”
The lawmaker emphasized that he and the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) were not against accountability but rather favored due process.
“My view is that the NPP is not against accountability, myself included. We have been in public service, we are out of it, so obviously, if the new government needs former officials to explain certain matters in one way or another, it is within their right to do so,” he said.
Challenging rumors that Gifty Oware-Mensah had fled Ghana to evade accountability, Haruna Mohammed, the NPP Deputy General Secretary, told Joy News that she was rather on official duty abroad.
He added, “I would like to state the fact that the allegation of fraud remains an allegation. It has been publicly stated at the National Service Authority that this is an allegation that has not been proven.”
During his delivery of the State of the Nation Address (SONA) on February 27, President John Dramani Mahama asked security agencies to put individuals accused of corruption offenses on a wanted list.
Earlier, the NIB had picked up and questioned Kwaku Ohene Gyan, alias Osonoba, a former Deputy Director of Operations at the NSA.
Meanwhile, watch this Ghana Month special edition of People and Places as we hear the story of how the head of Kwame Nkrumah’s bronze statue was returned after 43 years, below:
