Henry Nana Boakye, National Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has launched a scathing attack on the Fourth Estate’s investigative report on the National Service Authority (NSA) scandal, labeling it as “shoddy work” and “lazy journalism.”
Boakye’s criticism centers on the report’s alleged failure to accurately capture the complexities of the NSA’s posting processes.
“It’s a shoddy work, it’s a lazy journalism. They didn’t do any proper verification,” he said in an interview on Eyewitness News on Citi FM.
The NPP National Organiser explained that the NSA’s annual postings comprise four distinct categories, including general postings for universities, teacher postings, and two cohorts of nurse postings.
He argued that the Fourth Estate’s report cherry-picked a single figure from the 2018 general posting, which announced 85,000 placements, and misconstrued it as the total number of postings.
Boakye noted that the NSA submits a comprehensive report to Parliament, encompassing all four posting categories.
“We do that for the general posting, the teachers, the nurses one, and the nurses two, and then we submit all of these figures to Parliament,” he clarified.
“By comparing the 85,000 figure to the total sum submitted to Parliament, the Fourth Estate’s report drew erroneous conclusions about “ghost names,” Boakye asserted.