{"id":99134,"date":"2025-10-18T11:01:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T11:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=99134"},"modified":"2025-10-18T11:01:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T11:01:55","slug":"nsa-scandal-barker-vormawor-demands-wider-probe-beyond-two-former-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=99134","title":{"rendered":"NSA scandal: Barker-Vormawor demands wider probe beyond two former directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'>\n                <div class=\"twp-read-time\">\n                \t<i class=\"booster-icon twp-clock\"><\/i> <span>Read Time:<\/span>1 Minute, 43 Second                <\/div>\n\n            <\/div><div>\n<p>Human rights activist Oliver Barker-Vormawor has criticised the narrow focus on the former Executive Director, Osei Assibey Antwi, and former Deputy Executive Director, Gifty Oware-Mensah, urging authorities to look beyond individual culpability to systemic failures.<\/p>\n<p>The Attorney-General\u2019s office accuses Antwi and Oware-Mensah of masterminding two separate schemes involving \u201cghost\u201d service personnel to siphon public funds. <\/p>\n<p>However, Barker-Vormawor described the charges as \u201cunbelievable\u201d if the narrative ends with only two individuals being responsible for such a large-scale theft.<\/p>\n<p>He stated, \u201cEven if we take the figures the two people have been charged with, it is unbelievable that we say that two individuals were able to steal over 60 million dollars from the republic and it\u2019s just them. And that there is nothing system-wide that we need to be having a conversation with.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Read also: Osei Assibey, Gifty Oware charged in GH\u00a2653m NSA \u2018Ghost names\u2019 and fraud scandal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speaking on JoyNews\u2019 Newsfile on Saturday, October 18, the activist further criticised state investigative agencies for their apparent inability to fully unravel the scandal. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t remember a time where the state-owned investigative agencies have been able to unravel a scheme of this regard,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Highlighting the crucial role played by investigative journalists in exposing the scandal, Barker-Vormawor added, \u201cIt is insufficient for me to say that a couple of journalists themselves, just by asking questions and writing to people to give document which the state itself can get without going through have uncovered what the state has failed to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also condemned the deliberate obstruction of the Right to Information (RTI) process by state institutions, which he says frustrates efforts to obtain vital information. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a complete disinterest in state institutions giving information. 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