The Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Dr. Dominic Ayine, has revealed that the former Director General of the National Service Authority (NSA), Osei Assibey Antwi, paid a Ghanaian Member of Parliament (MP) to suppress media coverage of the ghost names scandal.
Providing an update on the investigations conducted by the Office of the Attorney General and the ORAL team, Dr. Ayine confirmed that significant progress had been made in uncovering corruption within the scheme.
Dr. Ayine disclosed that eight suspects linked to the National Service Scheme scandal had been interrogated, with several providing incriminating evidence.
“Because these matters are still under investigation, I can confirm that the investigation will conclude in the National Service and the Sky Train Scandal by the middle of April for the prosecution to begin.
With the National Service Scandal, eight suspects have been interrogated and a good number of them have started singing. We now have evidence of payments that were made into the accounts of the top executives of the National Service by private vendors of the scheme.
“We also have evidence that in November 2024, the CEO of the NSS and others paid a Ghanaian Member of Parliament to kill the story in the media and to defend them,” he stated.
