The Fourth Estate reports that officials at the National Service Authority (NSA) circumvented mandatory validation processes for payments of allowances to national service personnel, enabling thousands of nonexistent names to be added to the payroll.
This made it easy to use the ghost names to drain the public purse of millions of Ghana cedis in allowances intended for national service personnel. A whopping GHC2.2 billion is reported to have been siphoned since 2018 till date.
“The Fourth Estate has been investigating