ACCRA, Oct 22 (The African Portal) – Ghana’s Attorney-General has disclosed that a forensic audit by the Auditor-General’s Department has uncovered that the amount involved in the National Service “ghost names” scandal is GH¢2.2 billion, far higher than the GH¢548 million initially reported.
The Attorney-General said the new figure emerged after a detailed forensic review of the payroll and payment systems of the National Service Scheme (NSS).
The revelation marks a major escalation in what has become one of the country’s most significant public sector fraud investigations in recent years.
The Minister in charge of Government Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, has alleged that a significant financial irregularity occurred at the National Food Buffer Stock Company Limited.
In a Facebook post on Wednesday afternoon (October 22), Kwakye Ofosu cited information from the Attorney-General, claiming that between 2017 and 2024, the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Hanan Abdul-Wahab, together with Richard Sam-Asante and Bismark Owusu Bokaye, orchestrated the transfer of GH¢78,269,084.04 from the company’s bank accounts to a private firm allegedly linked to Abdul-Wahab, his wife, and other Buffer Stock staff.
The transfers were said to have been made through accounts at Republic Bank and Ecobank.
More details soon…
