Felix Gyamfi is the Director-General of the National Service Authority
The Director-General of the National Service Authority (NSA), Felix Gyamfi, has outlined several strict measures his office has implemented to eliminate ghost names from the National Service Scheme and close loopholes that allow individuals to exploit the system for financial gain.
Speaking on TV3’s The Keypoints on Saturday, June 14, 2025, Felix Gyamfi stated that students applying for National Service from unaccredited tertiary institutions will not be permitted to participate in the scheme.
“If you attend the university and it’s not properly accredited by the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC), you cannot do National Service. If your accreditation status is not properly certified by the GTEC, you cannot come and do National Service,” he said.
Gyamfi further stated that the number of eligible service personnel enrolling in 2025 will be significantly reduced.
He explained that the NSA will implement administrative procedures to help their system filter out individuals whose tertiary institutions are unaccredited, preventing them from enrolling in the scheme.
“This year, our numbers are going to reduce drastically because we are applying the administrative procedures and measures to check and filter all these things out,” he added.
He further noted that individuals who do not have Ghana Cards will not be permitted to undertake their National Service.
“Now, if you’re a National Service person this year and you do not have Ghana Card, you are not going to be able to do National Service because before you even have access to fill out your enrolment form, you have to be verified using the Ghana Card and no other form of identification. When you get access to the form and you come and register with us at National Service, you must be verified,” he added.
He continued to say that; “Every month, you are going to be verified so, before you start and finish your National Service, you would have been verified 15 times using the Ghana Card. You will not be allowed to be validated for payment anywhere else apart from our office. So, our biometric verification system only works in our office and if you take it out of our office, it will not work.”
Emphasising on more stricter measures, Gyamfi stated that processes are underway to integrate the Controller and Accountant General Department (CAGD) into their payment platforms.
This initiative, he said, aims to help eliminate individuals who are taking double salaries from their employers and the National Service.
“We are also integrating the Controller and Accounting General into our payment platforms so that what I mentioned earlier at the beginning of the discussion does not happen again.
“So, the beginning of National Service, when we have had all our payroll done, we’ll take it to the controlling accountant general and run through and make sure that we don’t have about 10,000 workers who are taking their salaries either as soldiers, teachers, whatever, and taking National Service. And that’s the money that we are collecting back,” he concluded.
His statement comes on the back of the NSS scandal involving some former officials who allegedly siphoned state funds using ghost names.
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