Gifty Oware-Mensah Charged with GH¢38.4 million Alleged Theft And Financial Loss

Former Deputy Executive Director of the National Service Authority (NSA), Gifty Oware-Mensah, has been charged with stealing and willfully causing financial loss to the state.

According to court documents sighted by GhanaWeb on October 13, 2025, the charges stem from alleged financial irregularities during her tenure at the National Service Authority.

According to the Attorney-General’s Department, Oware-Mensah allegedly misappropriated a total of GH¢38,458,248.87 between February 2022 and March 2024 while supervising the finance, audit, and procurement divisions of the NSA.

“Sometime in February 2025, the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) upon receiving intelligence, initiated investigations into alleged acts of ghost names, stealing, corruption, and money laundering by certain NSA staff.

“The investigation revealed that, between February 2022 and March 2024, the accused approached officials of the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) and informed them that the NSA had signed an agreement with her company, Blocks of Life Consult (BLC), to sell products on hire-purchase to National Service Personnel (NSP). She claimed that she required a loan of GH¢78,139,910.00 to support her business,” the sheet stated.

However, investigations revealed that no goods were ever supplied, and the names used to secure the facility were “ghost names” generated from the NSA’s internal system.
The charges against her include:

• Stealing GH¢31,502,091.40 belonging to the National Service Authority

• Willfully causing financial loss to the state through a fraudulent hire-purchase scheme

• Abuse of public office for personal gain

• Money laundering through the transfer of illicit funds into personal and affiliated accounts

The fraudulent funds were reportedly obtained through an agreement with the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB), which was to recover repayments from the allowances of 9,934 supposed National Service Personnel, all of whom were later discovered to be fictitious.

Part of the misappropriated funds was traced to Amaecom Global Company, where Oware-Mensah also served as a director, as well as other entities connected to her.