NSA Scandal: Gifty Oware-Mensah Accused of Using Service Allowances to Secure GH¢30m ADB Loan
AG alleges former NSA deputy used nearly 10,000 fake identities to secure fraudulent ADB loan
- Gifty Oware-Mensah allegedly used fake identities and ghost names to secure a GH¢30.7m loan from ADB
- She presented a shell company, Blocks of Life Consult
- Funds were diverted to four private firms
Dr. Dominic Ayine, Attorney General and Minister of Justice, has revealed that Gifty Oware-Mensah, the former Deputy Executive Director of the National Service Authority (NSA), orchestrated a large-scale financial fraud that siphoned over GH¢30 million in public funds.
Speaking at a press briefing in Accra on Friday, June 13, Dr. Ayine noted that this revelation is part of ongoing investigations by the Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) taskforce, which is probing financial mismanagement within the NSA.
According to the Attorney General, Oware-Mensah manipulated the National Service Personnel (NSP) allowance system by using it as collateral to obtain a GH¢30.7 million loan from the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB), at a 23% interest rate.
She reportedly registered a shell company, Blocks of Life Consult, using other people’s identities without their consent. The company was then fronted to ADB through an intermediary, Maxwell Akwesi Ofori-Mintah, with her husband, lawyer Peter Mensah, acting as a representative.
She claimed the company was providing home appliances to service personnel on a hire-purchase basis, with repayments managed through the NSA system — even though the company had no official vendor status with the authority.
Dr. Ayine further disclosed that Oware-Mensah used nearly 10,000 fictitious names across the 2022/2023 and 2023/2024 service years to reroute funds. Once the loan was granted, the money was funneled into four entities:
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GH¢22.9m to AMAECOM (where she’s a director)
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GH¢1m to Scafold (linked to Abraham Gaisie)
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GH¢1.57m to OTCHEY
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GH¢5.2m to Aristo Logistics and Trading
The Attorney General described the entire operation as a “deliberate and sophisticated attempt to loot state resources” and indicated that further legal action is imminent.
