Blakk Rasta, a Radio and Television personality, has dropped a bombshell about the former Deputy Executive Director of the NSA, Gifty Oware-Mensah.
According to Blakk Rasta, Gifty Oware-Mensah ran to the Attorney General, kneeling on her feet and begging the AG to have mercy on her and vowed to repay all the stolen money.
Blakk Rasta claimed that the former deputy NSA boss also told the Attorney General she is ready to pay for all she and her husband stole and also ‘sing like a bird’ against his former boss, Osei Assibey Antwi.
The controversial musician and presenter Blakk Rasta shared this on his show The Black Pot.
Speaking on his show, the Black Pot, Blakk Rasta alleged, “Gifty Oware was hot, you know what she did, and this is exclusive, she ran all the way to the Attorney General, knelt on the ground, and begged the Attorney General and said ‘ I am wrong, I am sorry for whatever I did, I don’t want to go to jail, me and my husband, are going to pay for what ever money we have stolen’”.
Blakk Rasta added, “After paying the money, I am ready to tell the whole story about my boss Osei Assibey Antwi, everything he has stolen, everything we did together to steal the Ghaanain people’s money. That was the plea deal”.
Meanwhile, in court, Gifty Oware-Mensah pleaded not guilty to five charges levelled against her by the Attorney General.
The former NSA Deputy Executive Director pleaded not guilty to five charges, including stealing and money laundering, in the ₵38 million ghost names scandal.
She made her court appearance at the Accra High Court on Wednesday, October 22, 2025.
Gifty Oware-Mensah was granted a GH¢10 million bail with three sureties in connection with the NSA ghost names scandal.
As part of her bail conditions, Gifty Oware-Mensah has been ordered to deposit all her passports and has been placed on a stop list at all entry and exit points in the country.
The case has been adjourned to November 25, 2025.
Background
Gifty Oware-Mensah, who was a Deputy Director-General of the National Service Authority, has been charged with stealing and willfully causing financial loss to the state.
The Attorney-General’s Department alleged Gifty Oware-Mensah misappropriated a total of GH¢38,458,248.87 between February 2022 and March 2024, overseeing finance, audit, and procurement at the NSA.
According to prosecutors, she dishonestly transferred GH¢31.5 million from a loan facility meant to support National Service Personnel into her private company accounts.
The said money was under the pretext of supplying goods on a hire-purchase basis; however, investigation revealed no such goods were supplied, and the names used to secure the loan were ghost names from the NSA’s internal system.
AG also alleged, “Out of the money received, the accused transferred GH¢22,925,518,69 to Amaecom Global Company of which she was a director, and the remaining amount to three other companies.”
Gifty Oware-Mensah’s charges include “Stealing GH¢31,502,091.40 belonging to the National Service Authority. Willfully causing financial loss to the state through the fake hire-purchase arrangement, Abuse of public office for personal gain and Money laundering through the transfer of funds into personal and affiliated accounts”.
Also, the Auditor-General’s report has revealed how Gifty Oware-Mensah for unlawfully enrolled as a National Service Person (NSP).
Gifty Oware-Mensah enrolled as a National Service Person while simultaneously serving as a full-time salaried public officer.
According to the technical and forensic audit, Gifty Oware-Mensah, between the 2021/2022 service year, was manually added to the NSS payroll despite holding an executive position.
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