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The Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Dr. Dominic Ayine, has disclosed that the former Director-General of the National Service Authority (NSA), Osei Assibey Antwi, allegedly paid a Ghanaian Member of Parliament (MP) to prevent media coverage of the widely publicized ghost names scandal.
Providing an update on the ongoing investigations by the Attorney General’s Office and the ORAL team, Dr. Ayine revealed that significant progress had been made in uncovering corruption within the National Service Scheme (NSS).
“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 top executives of the National Service by private vendors of the scheme,” he stated.
Dr. Ayine further alleged that in November 2024, the NSS leadership, including the CEO, paid a sitting MP to suppress the scandal in the media and defend them publicly.
“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 added.
According to Dr. Ayine, investigations into both the NSS ghost names scandal and the controversial Sky Train project will conclude by mid-April, after which prosecutions will commence.
