Felix Gyamfi is the Director-General of the National Service Authority (NSA)
The Director General of the National Service Authority (NSA), Felix Gyamfi, has disclosed further damning details regarding payroll fraud within the National Service Scheme, following the implication of 12 former officials.
Speaking on TV3’s Hot Issues on June 15, 2025, Gyamfi stated that a well-known public university had participated in the NSS payroll fraud by submitting a list of students who did not exist within the institution.
According to him, that particular institution was heavily involved in the malfeasance but refrained from revealing its name due to potential legal implications.
“I could say to you today that there’s a particular university in Ghana where lots of the malfeasance occurred under their watch more than anywhere else but because when I mention it, it would have legal implications and it would go against the credibility of the university and probably tomorrow I’ll be asked to [sic] I would have told you. I’m not going to mention the name because of it,” he said.
When asked by the host about the number of ghost names submitted by the university, Gyamfi did not specify a figure but stated that the names were part of a list of nonexistent individuals that had been deleted from the system.
He also referenced recorded cases in the NSS payroll fraud, including instances where octogenarians and Kenyans were found on the payroll.
“They are probably the list that we have to delete. You remember the Media Foundation for West Africa, Suleiman Braimah mentioned that there are people from Kenya, 83-year-old women and men were doing national service, that was part of those lists. So, the system can detect,” he continued.
Gyamfi noted that the authority has already taken the necessary actions regarding the institution.
However, he added that if the Attorney General decides to pursue prosecution, the authority will not hesitate to disclose the name of the institution.
“There are issues that we could deal with administratively, 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 like that.
“If at any point in time the National Service Board or the Attorney General is interested in the matter, we will give it out there for them to act on that,” he said.
He added, “So, I’m just saying that to prove to you that we could detect if anything untoward is coming from anywhere. Every aspect of the process is transparent. Of 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.”
Watch the video below;
The acting Director General of the National Service Scheme (NSS) has alleged that a well known public university played a role in the NSS scandal by submitting several ghost names to the scheme.
According to him, the university included individuals who were not even enrolled as… pic.twitter.com/DEPfUhfQuF
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