Gifty Oware-Mensah is former Deputy Executive Director of the National Service Authority (NSA)
The former Deputy Executive Director of the National Service Authority (NSA), Gifty Oware-Mensah, has been granted bail set at GH¢10 million with three sureties by the Accra High Court in the ongoing "ghost names" scandal.
As a condition of her bail, she has also been banned from travelling.
According to a report by starrfm.com.gh on October 22, 2025, Justice Audrey Kocuvi-Tay, the presiding judge, said the sureties should place copies of their passports and Ghana Cards with the Registry of the Court.
Oware-Mensah faces charges, including embezzling funds through the insertion of ghost names into the National Service Scheme (NSS) payroll and causing financial loss to the state.
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The bail follows a recent adjournment in proceedings. The court had previously deferred action after Oware-Mensah failed to appear on Friday, October 17, due to a two-day medical excuse.
In a show of support during Wednesday's proceedings, former NPP General Secretary John Boadu was reportedly spotted in court, seated next to Oware-Mensah.
It was noted that while Oware-Mensah is facing charges alongside former NSA Director-General Osei Asibey Antwi in a related context, they were not jointly charged in this specific matter before the court.
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The trial is expected to continue as the state seeks to unravel the extent of the alleged payroll fraud.
Background
Former Deputy Executive Director of the National Service Authority (NSA), Gifty Oware-Mensah, has been charged with stealing and willfully causing financial loss to the state.
According to court documents sighted by GhanaWeb on October 13, 2025, the charges stem from alleged financial irregularities during her tenure at the National Service Authority.
According to the Attorney General's Department, Oware-Mensah allegedly misappropriated a total of GH¢38,458,248.87 between February 2022 and March 2024, while supervising the finance, audit, and procurement divisions of the NSA.
"Sometime in February 2025, the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB), upon receiving intelligence, initiated investigations into alleged acts of ghost names, stealing, corruption, and money laundering by certain NSA staff.
"The investigation revealed that, between February 2022 and March 2024, the accused approached officials of the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) and informed them that the NSA had signed an agreement with her company, Blocks of Life Consult (BLC), to sell products on hire-purchase to National Service Personnel (NSP). She claimed that she required a loan of GH¢78,139,910.00 to support her business," the sheet stated.
However, investigations revealed that no goods were ever supplied, and the names used to secure the facility were "ghost names" generated from the NSA's internal system.
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