The former ECG Managing Director, 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.
Speaking on TV3’s Ghana Tonight show on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 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.
