Gifty Oware-Mensah, former acting Director-General of the National Service Authority (NSA), is at the center of a controversial loan scandal involving GHS30.7 million secured from the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) using a company she fraudulently registered and ghost national service personnel as collateral.
According to Attorney-General Dominic Ayine, Oware-Mensah orchestrated the plan using “Blocks of Life Consult,” a company registered in other people’s names without their consent. She enlisted her husband, lawyer Peter Mensah, and others to represent the company, claiming it was supplying appliances to service personnel on hire purchase.
“She presented Blocks of Life Consult to the ADB through a middleman and misled them into financing a scheme that had no legitimate existence on the NSA marketplace,” Ayine revealed.
Between 2022 and 2024, she reportedly used 9,934 ghost names to misappropriate the funds and transferred them to four company accounts, including AMEACOM and Scafold. Investigations found she had direct links to these companies.
From the ADB loan disbursed, about GHS22.9 million was traced to AMAECOM, GHS1 million to Scafold, and several million to other entities. “This was a meticulously executed fraud using state systems and institutions,” the Attorney-General said.
The incident forms part of a larger financial malfeasance case under the Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) initiative. Charges have been filed against Oware-Mensah and other NSA officials and vendors.
“Such conduct not only breaches public trust but also criminally exploits the mandate of a national institution,” Ayine emphasized.
