The former ECG Managing Director, Samuel Dubik Mahama, has 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.
Speaking on Asempa FM Samuel Dubik Mahama stated, “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?”
“ECG had not taken custody of the containers yet, so it couldn’t be an ECG problem.”
Samuel Dubik Mahama further stated the investigative committee has been unfair to him and called the process a witch hunt.
The former ECG MD revealed that he was never contacted as part of the investigation of the committee.
He further dismissed rumours that he had absconded from the country and gone into hiding.
Samuel Dubik Mahama added, “Since this container issue came up, I have received several calls from some staff members of ECG, inquiring why I have not come to defend myself. Today, I want to clarify, that since I resigned as the MD of ECG, I have not gone anywhere.
“There were reports that I had absconded from the country and gone into hiding. I can say for a fact that I have been in this country. The pain I feel now is what the committee has done to me”, he added.
He further revealed, “I was never contacted as part of the investigation of the committee. I didn’t receive any letter from any committee.
“If the committee had contacted me or spoken to me, I would have given out all the information I have because I only came in to serve Ghana. I worked for two years and four months. My records are there. The company hasn’t seen this kind of growth within this period,” he stated.
His comments come after National Security 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.
Meanwhile, a truck carrying suspected missing ECG cables has been impounded in Gomoa Awombrew.
According to the MP for Gomoa Central Kwame Asare-Obeng (A Plus), the truck was intercepted in his constituency.
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