Top public university involved in ghost name scandal – NSA Boss

The Acting Executive Director of the National Service Authority (NSA), Felix Gyamfi, has alleged that a prominent public university was complicit in the recent NSS ghost name scandal.

According to Mr. Gyamfi, the university submitted a list containing several names of individuals who were never enrolled as students, effectively inflating the number of supposed service personnel.

Speaking in an interview with TV3, he noted that the NSS has verifiable records of the incident and is ready to cooperate with any official investigation.

However, Mr. Gyamfi declined to publicly name the institution, citing potential legal implications and reputational damage.

Mr. Gyamfi emphasized the need to preserve the integrity of public institutions while ensuring that wrongdoing does not go unaddressed.

“Every aspect of the process is transparent, you know, I mean, if all the Universities in Ghana, I have a list that I put out and then you would see. So for even the universities that have submitted lists of people and all that, there are numbers attached to it. We could trace to districts and regions where this occurred and all that. I could say to you today that there’s a particular university in Ghana where lots of the malfunctions occurred and that they are much more than anywhere else. But because when I mentioned it, I would have legal implications and go against the credibility of the university and probably tomorrow I’ll be asking.

“”And then I’m not going to mention the names, the name because of it. So I’m just saying that to prove to you that we could detect, if anything, until all this happened. How many students did that university give you and in which year? There are issues that we could deal with administratively, right, also to protect the sanctity of an otherwise very viable public institution. We have taken the action that we have to take. We want to leave it at that. If at any point in time the National Service Board or the Attorney General is interested in the matter, we’ll give it out there for them to act on that.”