Former Deputy Executive Director of NSA, Gifty Oware-Mensah

MyNewsGh.com has learned that the former Deputy Director of the National Service Authority, Gifty Oware-Mensah, has been detained by the National Investigation Bureau (NIB).

According to reports, she was taken into custody on Friday, March 7, 2025, and has since been denied bail.

Her detention is in connection with an ongoing investigation by the NIB into payroll fraud during her tenure at the National Service Authority.

Reports indicate that John Boadu had earlier signed for her to be granted bail, but she was denied and whisked away from the premises of the National Investigation Bureau.

Efforts by her lawyers to secure her bail and obtain information on her current location have so far proven futile.

Gifty Oware-Mensah returned to Ghana on Tuesday, March 5, 2025, after spending time abroad on holiday following the 2024 elections.

Her lawyer, Nana Agyei-Baffour, speaking to JoyNews in an interview after her return, indicated that she had not received any prior invitation from the NIB.

Gifty Oware-Mensah’s detention follows the arrest of her colleague, Ohene Djan, who was picked up from his home in a Rambo-style operation by NIB officers days earlier.

Meanwhile, watch this Ghana Month special edition of People and Places as we hear the story of how the head of Kwame Nkrumah's bronze statue was returned after 43 years, below: