National Service Authority flags 8,105 individuals over payroll irregularities 

The National Service Authority (NSA) has flagged 8,105 individuals in its payroll database pending investigations by security agencies. 

The Authority said 1,840 of the affected individuals had been suspended. 

Madam Ruth Dela Sedoh, Director?General of the NSA, disclosed this at a press briefing at the Authority’s headquarters in Accra. 

She said that had the irregularities gone undetected, non?qualified individuals would have been enrolled as national service personnel and received undue monthly allowances. 

“The state would have incurred significant financial losses through payment of monthly allowances to these individuals. The credibility and integrity of the National Service Authority would have been severely compromised,” she said. 

Madam Sedoh said the Authority had for years been weakened by individuals who created non?existent service personnel or collaborated with insiders to process payments for people who never reported for duty. 

She said the irregularities were linked to discrepancies between the number of graduates officially produced by certain tertiary institutions and the figures submitted to the NSA for enrolment. 

The institutions cited included the University for Development Studies, Ghana Communication Technology University and the Akenten Appiah?Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development. 

“We compared the number of students who officially graduated from these schools with the lists submitted to us and discovered serious inconsistencies. What we uncovered points to a large cartel operating within the system,” Madam Sedoh said. 

She said the investigations had led to the arrest of 10 staff members from the affected institutions, who were assisting security agencies with further inquiries. 

Meanwhile, the NSA has extended the deadline for personnel registration and validation by one week, from Monday, December 15 to Monday, December 22, 2025, to address validation challenges and requests for reposting from rejected institutions. 

Source: GNA 

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