A-G Subtly Implicates A-Plus In NSS Ghost Names Scandal

The Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Dominic Ayine, has alluded to the involvement of lawmaker, Kwame Asare Obeng, in the National Service Scheme Ghost names saga.

According to him, this discovery had egged on Obeng, popularly known as A-Plus, to make ‘unsubstantiated’ and wild allegations about him on social media last month.

“The media should ask him (A-Plus) about the ‘silly’ thing that I was about to do which frightened him (A-Plus) so much into making that silly post about me. He (A-Plus) should be asked what he knows about the National Service ghost names scandal and related matters,” he said at a presser on April 30.

Following the takeover of governance by the Mahama administration in January, a fraudulent enlistment of non-existent personnel on the National Service Authority (NSA) payroll was uncovered leading to a large-scale investigation.

In March, the A-G alleged that the former Director-General of the NSA, Osei Assibey Antwi, bribed a Member of Parliament to “kill” the story about the ghost names.

Addressing the press, he said his outfit possessed substantive evidence to that effect.

The Minister for Justice indicated that eight suspects had so far been interrogated and had admitted to the crime.

Source: opemsuo.com/Hajara Fuseini