Saddick Adams, the morning show host of Angel FM has shockingly blown an alarm on how the Electricity Company Ghana (ECG) Haatso branched and told a young lady to buy her own cables and poles.
The broadcast journalist revealed that the young lady lost her power connection to her new restaurant due to last Tuesday’s rains and was told by the ECG to buy her own cables and poles if she wants to restore power to her shop because ECG has no cables.
Saddick Adams in a post on X wrote, “A young lady who has set up a new restaurant has been told by ECG Haatso branch to buy her own cables and poles if she wants to restore power to her shop because ECG has no cables.
Power connection to her shop was cut due to last Tuesday’s rains. Now they can’t operate”.
He further added, “This is the same ECG that has over a thousand containers of cables stolen and sold to the Chinese.
The ordinary citizen will always be the victim of thievery & greed”, he added.
Saddick Adams’s revelation comes following the National Security arresting twelve Chinese and a Ghanaian in connection to the ECG missing containers.
The information gathered suggests the arrested person is linked to two aluminium smelting companies located in Shai Hills.
Cables, trusted to be part of the missing load, were traced to an aluminium smelter owned by the Chinese, located opposite the Shai Hills Game Reserve.
According to reports the cables were being melted into aluminium bars for export.
National security is also said to be on a manhunt for another Chinese on the run.
Afenyo Markin who served as the board chairman of the ECG under the erstwhile Akufo-Addo government on the floor of parliament accused some staff of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) of planning and plotting with Customs Officers at the port to sell over 1,300 missing containers of cables at the Tema Port.
Speaking on the floor of Parliament on Friday, March 28, 2025, Afenyo-Markin questioned how the containers simply vanished into thin air despite bureaucratic processes at the port.
“How come containers at the port that have arrived, the bureaucracy at our ports, they said the containers are missing? Mr. Speaker, it is true that when these containers come, there’s some connivance with some customs officials. And they sell these containers of cables that ECG needs after the supplier has been paid.”
He further alleged that the cables are resold to ECG, urging lawmakers to focus on addressing the issue rather than politicizing it.
“They sell the containers, and people resell to ECG. Are we pretending we don’t know? Instead of us paying attention to it and killing the rot, then we come here and then NPP, NDC, maybe it happened under NPP, it happened under NDC. No.”
Afenyo-Markin assured the Energy Minister of the Minority’s support in tackling the issue.
“Hon. Energy Minister [John Jinapor], I know what you can do if we can give you support to do it. You must adopt a non-partisan posture and tackle the rot. But if we all want to approach it NPP, NDC, then Mr. Speaker, it will remain.”
Meanwhile, National Security has arrested twelve Chinese and a Ghanaian in connection to the ECG missing containers.
The information gathered suggests the arrested person is linked to two aluminium smelting companies located in Shai Hills.
Cables, trusted to be part of the missing load, were traced to an aluminium smelter owned by the Chinese, located opposite the Shai Hills Game Reserve.
According to reports the cables were being melted into aluminium bars for export.
National security is also said to be on a manhunt for another Chinese on the run.
John Jinapor the energy minister has vowed to hold those responsible for the disappearance of over 1,347 containers belonging to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) accountable.
According to him, he will stop at nothing to retrieve the missing containers, prosecute the perpetrators, and recover the cost incurred.
See the post below:
A young lady who has set up a new restaurant has been told by ECG Haatso branch to buy her own cables and poles if she wants to restore power to her shop because ECG has no cables.
Power connection to her shop was cut due to last Tuesday’s rains. Now they can’t operate.
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— Saddick Adams (@SaddickAdams) March 28, 2025
