A technical and forensic audit report on the Client Service Management Portal (CSMP) and Metric App of the National Service Authority (NSA) has corroborated the allegations made against former appointees of the authority currently being prosecuted by the state.

One of the allegations made against these appointees is the payment of millions of Ghana cedis to persons who were not within the eligible age of service personnel, including 8-year-old children and very old people.

The report found that these people were paid nearly GH¢2 million.

“Contrary to the above legal and administrative provisions, our audit of enrolment and payroll data for three service years — 2022/2023 to 2024/2025 — identified numerous anomalies in the age profiles of persons enrolled and paid as National Service Personnel. Personnel below the eligible age of 18 years were enrolled and paid allowances amounting to GH¢1,313,144.29. Personnel above 60 years — some aged up to 1,027 years — were also enrolled and paid allowances amounting to GH¢660,438.75,” parts of the report read.

The report showed that some of the ineligible people who were enrolled onto the National Service Scheme included over 1,500 children, below the age of 10, and thousands of people above the age of 60 years.

The report indicated that the payment to the ineligible persons represents a “gross violation of the eligibility rules governing national service and raises serious concerns regarding the authenticity of personnel records, the integrity of the enrolment process, and potential ghost names and payroll fraud.”

It added that the issues point to “a deliberate manipulation of payroll for fraudulent gain.”

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It, therefore, recommended that the persons who were in charge of the payments be made to repay them with interest.

“Recover funds paid to all ineligible or fictitious personnel. All recoveries should be made into the Auditor-General’s Recovery Account (BoG Account Number 1018331470015 held at High Street or GCB Account Number 1011200005912 held at High Street).

“The Director-General and deputies at the helm of affairs would be surcharged with the amount of GH¢1,973,583.04 at the current Bank of Ghana (BoG) interest rate,” the report said.

View a breakdown of the payment below:



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