It is an incontrovertible fact that times are hard in Ghana. But it seems that is the case for only the ordinary person, as anyone in a position of power seems solely interested in how they can abuse it for their own benefit.
A common belief is shared that corruption is rife in Ghana, but the Bureau of National Inverstigations (BNI) have uncovered a racket within the National Service Scheme(NSS) that even by our standards, is truly mind boggling.
Graphic Online reports officials of the BNI have uncovered a deep seated rot at the NSS that loses the country over GHc 7.9 million every month. The scam is carried out by inflating the roster of National Service personnel, with the perpetrators then cashing out the allowances of the non-existent ghost names they flood the system with.
The ghost names are reportedly generated from the head office in Accra, and then distributed to regional and district personnel involved in the scam. To keep the possibility of discovery low, the ghost personnel are often posted to remote and often non-existent institutions.