Former Managing Director of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Samuel Dubik Mahama, says he is not guilty of any wrongdoing with regard to the mysterious vanishing of 1328 containers from the Tema Port.
The former ECG boss indicated that he will cooperate with any and all bodies dispatched to investigate the missing containers.
“A container cannot get missing, it can only be misplaced. The only time a container can get missing is at sea because GPHA is not a small entity and Customs is not a small entity as well. I am here, and I will subject myself to whatever investigations because the truth of the containers must come out,” he mounted a spirited defense in an interview.
He further explained that the only way a container can leave the port is by an auction.
The former ECG boss chastised the committee which investigated the missing containers saga of being unfair to him. “I want to use this medium to tell the committee, one you have been very very unfair to me. What did I do wrong? Will it be wrong for me to consider this a witch hunt?” he asked
Dubik Mahama’s statement comes in the wake of mounting concerns and public outrage over the alarming loss of the 1,328 containers, which were meant for ECG’s operations.
This bombshell was revealed in an investigative report on the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).
Chairman of the investigative committee, Prof. Innocent Senyo Acquah disclosed the ECG initially claimed to have 2,491 uncleared containers at the port. These containers are said to be filled with cables and other essential equipment for the work of ECG.
However, a recent independent audit at the port revealed that out of 2,491 containers, only 1,134 containers remain as at now. This means 1,347 containers have currently gone missing.
A full scale investigation was launched by the Minister for Energy, John Abdulai Jinapor after this report reached his desk.
During a tour of aluminium smelting facilities in Shai-Osudoku on Friday, March 28, authorities discovered several coils of stolen ECG cables, which were components of the missing containers, melted into blocks and further processed into aluminium rods for export.
Operatives of the National Security Secretariat arrested some 14 Chinese nationals and 2 Ghanaians following the bust at Shai-Osudoku.
Forty (40) containers have also been retrieved from an Indian businessman who says the containers and its contents were sold to him in 2024.
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