The Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development (AAMUSTED), has strongly denied allegations linking the institution to National Service irregularities, describing claims of its involvement as inaccurate and misleading.
In a press statement issued by the university and copied to the Ghana News Agency, AAMUSTED explained that its role in the 2024/2025 National Service process, was limited to submitting a list of its final-year students to the National Service Authority (NSA), in strict compliance with official instructions provided by the Authority.
The statement said in April 2025, the NSA requested all tertiary institutions to upload lists of their eligible 2024/2025 final-year students onto the NSA portal for deployment purposes.
The Authority supplied a standard template and clear guidelines, specifying that only students who were 18 years and above, Ghanaian, had not previously undertaken national service, and were not students at affiliate Colleges of Education were to be included.
AAMUSTED said it fully complied with these requirements and submitted its final-year student list accordingly.
The university further disclosed that on December 1, 2025, a high-level NSA team comprising the Deputy Director-General, the Head of IT, and the Ashanti Regional Director visited AAMUSTED to independently verify the data uploaded onto the NSA portal.
Following the verification exercise, the team reportedly found no adverse issues with the university’s submission.
However, on December 16, 2025, media reports quoted the Director-General of the NSA, as saying that more than 8,000 names submitted for national service postings had been flagged, with three universities, including AAMUSTED allegedly implicated in serious irregularities.
The reports also claimed that ten individuals had been arrested in connection with the matter.
Reacting to these reports, AAMUSTED categorically stated that no member of its staff or student body had been arrested in relation to any National Service payroll fraud.
The university also pointed out that on the same day the reports were published, the Deputy Director-General of the NSA, speaking on Metro Television, retracted claims that AAMUSTED had submitted “ghost names” to the National Service database.
“No AAMUSTED staff have been involved in irregularities relating to National Service payroll fraud,” the statement emphasised.
The university has called for the records to be set straight and urged students, prospective applicants, staff, and the public to continue to have confidence in the integrity and credibility of AAMUSTED and its workforce.
GNA
Edited by Yussif Ibrahim/ Christabel Addo
20 Dec. 2025
