Former Director-General of the National Service Authority, Osei Assibey Antwi, has pleaded not guilty to 14 counts over 60,000 NSS ghost names charges.
Osei Assibey pleaded not guilty to 14 counts, including stealing, causing financial loss to the state, and money laundering in the NSS ghost names scandal.
The Former Director-General of the National Service Authority is
accused of authorising payments to over 60,000 non-existent national service personnel and misappropriating public funds.
The former NSS boss is facing multiple counts under sections “179A(1) and 124(1) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29) and section 1(2)(c) of the Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2020 (Act 1044)”.
Prosecutors allege that the former NSA boss “willfully caused financial loss of GH¢500,861,744.02 to the Republic by authorising the payment of allowances to over 60,000 “ghost” service personnel between August 2021 and February 2025. Also facing six counts of stealing.
The theft includes, “GH¢3.6 million on August 22, 2023, GH¢516,000 each on September 11, October 26, and November 23, 2023, GH¢1.03 million on December 18, 2023, GH¢2.06 million on May 14, 2024.
He has also been accused of transferring GH¢8.26 into his personal account.
The charge sheet also cites “unauthorised withdrawals from the Kumawu Farm Project account (No. 1018631542212), amounting to GH¢74 million”.
Also, Dr Dominic Ayine, the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, has revealed that the National Service ghost names scandal now stands at GHC2.2 billion and not GHC548 million.
According to the Attorney General, following a forensic audit by the Auditor-General, a new figure of GHC2.2 billion has been uncovered to be the amount of money stolen.
He revealed that, per this new information, the charge sheet against the suspects will be amended for fresh charges to be brought against these suspects.
Speaking at the press briefing on Wednesday, October 22, 2025, Dr Dominic Ayine added, “ I wish to announce that the Auditor-General has conducted a forensic audit into the National Service scandal, and the total amount of money stolen or illegally spent now stands at GHC2.2 billion and not the GHC548 million that was uncovered by my investigators as at June 2025.
I have here a copy of the Auditor-General’s report. We are going to base upon this in some cases and amend our charge sheet in other to bring fresh charges,” he stated.
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