Ghana: ECG’s Containers Are Not Missing; They Are Still At Tema Port – Says Former MD

The former Managing Director of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Samuel Dubik Mahama, Esq., has expressed optimism that the 1,347 containers reported missing from ECG’s inventory are still at the Tema Port.

“Honestly, I strongly believe the containers are at the port,” Mahama stated confidently in an interview with Accra-based TV3.

His comments come in response to a report by a technical committee set up by the Minister of Energy and Green Transition to investigate procurement activities which revealed that over 1,300 containers with critical electrical equipment belonging to ECG had disappeared from the Tema Port.

The purported missing containers had raised concerns about possible mismanagement, corruption, or smuggling within ECG’s supply chain.

However, Mahama dismissed suggestions that ECG itself lost the containers, asserting that they were never in the company’s custody.

“This conversation would be different if we were saying that the containers were in the custody of ECG and got lost. But that is not the conversation. The conversation is that those containers are at the port, … have we visited the other terminals?” he asked.

He further questioned why ECG’s containers would be auctioned without the company’s knowledge, stating that unpaid duties should not lead to secretive disposal.

“ECG hasn’t paid its duties. So why auction a container belonging to ECG without notifying ECG? Because in my candid opinion, that’s the only way a container can leave the port,” he asserted.

Mahama also challenged the notion that a container could simply vanish.

“A container is not like a piece of paper that you fold and throw away. For international supply chain logistics, a container has a unique number,” he explained.

Source: https://energynewsafrica.com