Kofi Asare of Africa Education Watch has said that the National Service Secretariat Scandal would have been swept under the carpet if the National Democratic Congress had not won the 2024 general elections.
The Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Dr Dominic Ayine, has exposed what he describes as a “criminal enterprise” within the National Service Scheme (NSS) that cost the Ghanaian state over GH¢548 million through the use of ghost names and systemic payroll fraud.
Addressing journalists at a press briefing in Accra on Friday, June 13, 2025, Dr Ayine revealed that the investigation—undertaken as part of the government’s Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) initiative—has uncovered an alleged nationwide fraud scheme involving top-level NSS officials, including district directors, payroll officers, and the CEO of the scheme.
“In the 2022/2023 service year, GH¢350,926,977.12 was lost to the state. For the 2023/2024 service year, GH¢32,881,157.07 was lost to the Republic. In total, as stated, we lost about GH¢548,333,542.65 to the criminal enterprise perpetrated by these executives, directors, and staff, as well as the service providers in the market,” Dr Ayine disclosed.
The staggering revelations have triggered widespread public outrage, with many Ghanaians expressing shock at the amount of money allegedly stolen by the suspects.
According to Kofi Asare, the government would not have gone after the suspects if the New Patriotic Party (NPP) had broken the proverbial eight in the immediate past presidential and parliamentary elections.
In a Facebook post, Kofi Asare stated: “All this NSS noise could have been avoided if we Broke The 8.”
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