FORMER NSS DEPUTY DIRECTOR, GIFTY OWARE ABSENT AT HER FIRST COURT HEARING, LAWYERS CITE HOSPITAL ADMISSION

The first court appearance of former National Service Secretariat Deputy Director, Gifty Oware, has been adjourned to October 22, 2025.

Her legal team informed the court of her absence, citing a hospital admission.

The National Service Scheme (NSS) has been hit by a major financial scandal involving its former Deputy Executive Director, Gifty Oware-Mensah, and former Executive Director Osei Assibey Antwi.

The two have been accused of presiding over a GH¢653 million fraud, largely driven by the payment of allowances to tens of thousands of ghost service personnel.

A nationwide verification exercise revealed that while the NSS payroll listed over 180,000 personnel, only about 98,000 were verified as genuine. The rest were allegedly fictitious names used to siphon millions of cedis from the state.

Beyond the ghost-name scandal, Mrs Oware-Mensah has also been implicated in a separate GH¢30.7 million loan fraud involving a company she allegedly registered under false pretences to secure financing from the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB), using allowances of service personnel as collateral.

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