The former Executive Director of the National Service Authority (NSA), Osei Assibey Antwi, has been charged with 14 counts, including causing financial loss to the Republic, stealing, and money laundering, in a case involving more than GH¢600 million.
According to a charge sheet filed at the Accra High Court on October 13, 2025, the former NSA boss is accused of authorising payments to over 60,000 non-existent national service personnel and misappropriating public funds during his tenure between August 2021 and February 2025.
Assibey Antwi faces multiple charges under sections 179A(1) and 124(1) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29), and section 1(2)(c) of the Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2020 (Act 1044).
Prosecutors allege that he willfully caused financial loss of GH¢500.8 million by approving allowances for “ghost” personnel.
He also faces six counts of stealing, involving several million cedis between August 2023 and May 2024, including GH¢3.6 million on August 22, 2023, and multiple transfers of GH¢516,000 each in the following months.
The state further alleges that between January 2022 and December 2024, he transferred GH¢8.26 million from the NSA’s control account to his personal e-zwich account, forming the basis of a money laundering charge.
Prosecutors also cited unauthorised withdrawals from the Kumawu Farm Project account totalling GH¢74 million, allegedly diverted from their intended use.
Read the full charge sheet filed by the Attorney General below:
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