GFA EXCO member Gifty Oware-Mensah reportedly detained by NIB over payroll fraud probe
Susceptible Deputy Director of the National Service Authority, Gifty Oware-Mensah, has been detained by the National Investigation Bureau (NIB) in connection with an ongoing payroll fraud investigation.
Reports demonstrate that the Ghana Soccer Affiliation (GFA) Executive Council member became as soon as taken into custody on Friday, March 7, 2025. She has since been denied bail irrespective of attempts to safe her open.
Sources stammer John Boadu within the origin signed for her bail, nonetheless she became as soon as later taken remote from the NIB premises.
The Berry Ladies’ owner’s lawyers beget since been unable to invent details about her most new blueprint or safe her open.
Gifty Oware-Mensah just no longer too prolonged ago returned to Ghana on Tuesday, March 5, 2025, after spending time out of the country on holiday following the 2024 elections.
Her lawyer, Nana Agyei-Baffour, advisable JoyNews that she had no longer got any prior invitation from the NIB sooner than her arrest.
Her detention follows essentially the most new arrest of one other frail first payment, Ohene Djan, who became as soon as reportedly picked up from his residence in a dramatic operation by NIB officers.
The investigations into payroll fraud at the National Service Authority remain ongoing.