The Head of Accounts at the National Service Authority (NSA), Mark Yaw Danso, has denied knowledge of the ghost names payroll scandal that has rocked the Authority.
Mr. Danso was picked up by the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) for questioning over his alleged involvement in the scandal that has got many talking.
His invitation followed that of one Kwaku Ohene Gyan, a former Deputy Director of Operations at NSA, who was taken into custody on Saturday, February 22, 2025.
According to Danso, the NIB invited him to find out what he also knows about the whole scandal as head of accounts at the NSA.
“I’m currently the head of accounts at the National Service Authority (NSA) and I think they thought it wise that they need to call me to question me to get any information on this whole issue,” he has stated.
Speaking on TV3’s Ghana Tonight after his release from the NIB’s outfit Monday, February 24, 2025, Yaw Danso explained that despite being posted to the NIA headquarters to take over as head of accounts in April 2024, he took over in December.
He alleged that the man who deputised his predecessor refused to hand over the role due to his political association with the then government in power.
Danso disclosed that he had to hang on despite his transfer letter from April to December until the deputy retired in December before taking over.
“I’m new at the National Service as the Head of Accounts, I’m a new accountant there. I was posted there on April 2024 as the Head of Accounts and I took over on 23rd December 2024 so I just took over this very December 2024 as Head of Accounts,” he revealed.
When asked why it had to take him many months before taking over despite his transfer, he alleged it was due to political reasons.
“Actually when I got there to assume office there was one man who was deputising the one who was posted out for him to be replaced. He decided not to hand over to me because of his, close to the political…, it was so many issues that came up that I was just asked to hang on till he retires so around December, he retired and handed over for me to take over,” he explained.
Meanwhile, Gifty Oware-Mensah, the former Deputy Executive Director of the NSA, who was out of sight, has reported that she was with the Black Queens in Morocco for a friendly encounter and not on the run as has been alleged by some media houses.
The ghost names scandal has resulted in significant financial losses for the state, with several high-ranking officials now under investigation.
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