The Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Sulemana Braimah, has described the reassignment of the Acting Director-General of the National Service Authority (NSA), Felix Gyamfi, as a step in the right direction.
In an interview with Citi FM’s Eyewitness News on Monday, September 8, Mr. Braimah said he was not surprised by Gyamfi’s removal, given the developments at the Authority that, in his view, demanded urgent reform.
“I think that it is not surprising given the kinds of developments that were happening,” Braimah said.
He added:
“Any leader who wanted to see proper reforms happening at the NSS would have been tempted to make the same decision, so I am not surprised.”
Gyamfi, who was appointed in January 2025, was reassigned on Monday, September 8, to the Ministry of Finance. The sudden move has raised eyebrows within the public sector due to its abrupt nature and the critical timing, coming just ahead of new national service postings.
Reports suggest the reassignment stemmed from a disagreement between Gyamfi and the Minister of Youth Development, George Opare Addo, over the future of the NSA’s digital deployment platform. The system recently came under scrutiny after an audit uncovered widespread abuse, including “ghost names” on the payroll.
Braimah criticised Gyamfi’s insistence on keeping and upgrading the platform despite evidence linking it to financial losses.
“I couldn’t understand why there was that attempt by the outgoing Acting Director-General to defend that particular digital platform, which certainly was part of the problem that we had revealed in terms of the monies that had been lost,” Braimah noted. “He was determined to defend it — and to me, it was untenable.”
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