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Alleged NSS fraud: Ghost names include over 90-year-olds – Braimah

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The Fourth Estate’s latest investigative report into Ghana’s National Service Scheme (NSS) has revealed a bizarre detail that several supposed National Service Personnel are listed as being over 90 years old. According to the investigation, the NSS database contained names of individuals allegedly completing tertiary education at an advanced age. In one case, a 93-year-old, named Nimatus, was listed as a graduate of the University for Developmen…

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NSS Scandal: How officials bypassed validation process to stuff payroll with ‘ghost’ names

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. The Fourth Estate has been investigating allegations of corruption at the NSA f…

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