Kwaku Krobea Asante

2 months ago | thefourthestategh.com | Seth Bokpe |Kwaku Krobea Asante

When Joel Nunifant graduated from Bagabaga College of Education in 2017, national service was not compulsory for teachers. He never enrolled and so it came to him as a shock when he discovered that his identity, including his college ID number, had been stolen and altered for the registration of other people under the National Service Scheme (NSS). The fraudulent entry, revealed by an investigation by The Fourth Estate, did more than just make illegal use of his ID number.

2 months ago | thefourthestategh.com | Seth Bokpe |Kwaku Krobea Asante

Officials at the National Service Authority (NSA) circumvented mandatory validation processes for payments of allowances to national service personnel, enabling thousands of nonexistent names to be added to the payroll.  This made it easy to use the ghost names to drain the public purse of millions of Ghana cedis in allowances intended for national service personnel.

Dec 9, 2024 | fact-checkghana.com | Kwaku Krobea Asante

Parliament plays no role in removal of Supreme Court judges. Here is all you needSome social media users (here, here, and here) claimed the NDC could remove Supreme Court justices when it secures a two-thirds majority in Parliament. Provisional results point to an outright win for John Mahama, the 2024 National Democratic Congress (NDC) Presidential candidate, in the just-ended election.

Dec 7, 2024 | fact-checkghana.com | Kwaku Krobea Asante

Claim:  Multiple social media users (here, here  and here)  claim that 1,200 presidential ballots were lost in Yendi. Verdict: TrueExplanation: The Ghana Fact Coalition spoke with a correspondent from the Yendi Constituency, who confirmed that 1,200 presidential ballots were missing. A West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) observer stationed in Yendi also confirmed via telephone that the missing ballot papers were detected in the EC office before distribution to the polling station.

Dec 7, 2024 | fact-checkghana.com | Kwaku Krobea Asante

X users, @NanaKwame_off, @GrefDuah, and @AmoakoKwam, claim NDC Parliamentary candidate for Ayawaso West Wuogon, John Dumelo, called Maa Lydia a husband killer in bulk SMS to constituents. Verdict: False Explanation: The Ghana Fact-Checking Coalition checked with multiple voters in the constituency, and they denied receiving a message with such content from John Dumelo.