The former ECG Managing Director, Samuel Dubik Mahama has exploded in an interview denying claims of being part of the ECG container syndicate.
According to Samuel Dubik Mahama, if he was part of the ECG container syndicate a forensic audit will show that.
He further stated, what will be his aim to be part of a syndicate to take containers out.
Samuel Dubik Mahama asserted that he does not live in a container house.
Speaking on TV3 Ghana Tonight, Samuel Dubik Mahama stated, “If that is the case so be it it will come out, in the forensic audit if that is the case so be it, let the records show that Dubik was part of the syndicate if that is what we are looking for let look for it.
What will Dubik aim to be part of a syndicate to take containers out, do I live in a container house? If you come to my home and it was built with containers yes you could say something like that and people will believe you”.
He further added, “The conversation at hand is this, we keep digressing on the issue of containers that have arrived for ECG, ECG didn’t have money to clear the containers the containers went into an unclaimed area yes the containers were there some were subject to an investigation. They were there for a long period of time, how many terminals are there in GPHA have we gone to every terminal to determine?
If you go to GPHA alone you are not being fair, let go through all of them, don’t say I went here and I counted and that was it.
How will you call those containers missing, how did they leave, how did the container leave the port, we all live in Ghana how did that container leave the port, the answer to all that we are looking for is how did those containers leave the port if we get to the bottom of that we will find that syndicate”, he stated.
Samuel Dubik Mahama has insisted he believes strongly the missing ECG containers are still at the port.
According to Samuel Dubik Mahama, a container is not like a piece of paper that you fold and throw away and added that a container has a unique number.
He asserted that a container cannot go missing and quizzed the Committee if they checked the GPHA terminal, the other holding terminals, and the Customs terminal.
Samuel Dubik Mahama emphasized, “Honestly, I want to say I believe strongly the containers are at the port. The containers are at the port, there are only two entities that have control of those containers—Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) and Ghana Customs.”
“A container cannot get missing. The Committee said it checked GPHA terminals. Did they go to the other holding terminals to check? Did they go to the Customs terminal to check?”
“This conversation would have been 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 explained.
He further added, “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”.
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 stressed.
Meanwhile, Samuel Dubik Mahama also urged Ghanaians to stop pointing fingers at Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo Markin and former Energy Minister Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh over the missing ECG containers scandal.
Samuel Dubik Mahama debunked the allegation levelled at Alexander Afenyo-Markin and Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, urging critics to halt the blame game.
His comment comes after the Deputy Director in charge of Operations at the Presidency, Mustapha Gbande has called for the arrest of some key individuals he claims are responsible for the more than 1,300 containers belonging to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) at Tema Port disappearing.
According to him, Alexander Afenyo-Markin a former Board Chairman of ECG, Matthew Opoku Prempeh a former Energy Minister, and Samuel Dubik Mahama the former CEO of ECG must be arrested.
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Missing ECG Containers: “Do I live in a container house?” – Dubik Mahama explodes over ECG syndicate claims#TV3GH
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