Former Minister of Sports and Recreation, Mustapha Ussif, together with former National Service Authority (NSA) Director-General, Osei Assibey Antwi, has condemned a report that links him to alleged corrupt activities during his tenure at the NSA.
This statement was released on Tuesday, February 18, in response to claims regarding discrepancies in the NSA’s payroll.
Before his role as Sports Minister, Mustapha Ussif served as the Executive Director of the NSA and was mentioned in a report by The Fourth Estate—an investigative journalism outlet—as a key figure in the Ghost Names Scandal that has impacted the NSA.
In addition to Ussif, the report from The Fourth Estate also implicated Osei Assibey Antwi, the former Deputy Director of the NSA, Gifty Oware-Mensah, a member of the Ghana Football Association Executive Council, and Henry Nana Boakye, the National Organizer of the New Patriotic Party.
Aside calling for the report to be treated with contempt, the statement added that the report is “a manifest example of how the misapprehension of data and institutional processes may result in conclusions that misinform and mislead the general public.”
Mustapha Ussif served as Sports Minister from March 2021 to February 2025.
