Editorial: Of Memos and the Facts of the Missing ECG Containers of Cables

Ignore the diversionary memo of 2025 on the 1,346 Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) missing containers and their contents. The Memo heading has been faked and twisted from an original memo speaking to different issues.

Fact is that the only credible memos of the ECG and GRA released by the opposition NPP dates back to 2022/2023 thereabout. Unfortunately even those memos indict the former Akufo-Addo administration and ECG management officials even more.

Those memos only suggest that some of the missing ECG containers with cables may have been auctioned off by the GRA then. Those l’ve seen don’t show proof of any legitimate auction, when such auctions were allegedly carried out, and by which auctioneer (s). They also contain a few number of containers – about five in one Memo.

Worst for the proponents of the auction theories, all their memos also predated the 7th December 2024 elections and subsequent Transition meetingswhich began on 12th December. It was at those meetings that the outgoing administration formally informed the incoming Mahama Government of 3,000 ECG containers of various materials sitting at the Tema Port. It was out of the 3,000 containers that GPHA/GRA officials later told a team led by Energy and Green Transition Minister, John Abdulai Jinapor on a visit that, 2,500 units were still at the Harbour. Only for a technical audit team set up by the Government to find out from ECG, GRA and GPHA electronic and other records that 1,346 of the containers with their contents were missing.

In other words, if the memos of 2022/2023 were to be even properly considered, it meant the outgoing administration knew there were no 3,000 containers at the port before reporting same at the Transition meetings.

The ministerial team would also not have been told of about 2,500 containers of ECG products docked at the port when it visited.

Also, if the containers had been genuinely auctioned long before the former administration lost the elections, what then was the intention of reporting 3000 containers docked at the port during the Transition.

Anyway, whether auctioned, stolen, sold, gifted or whatever, the issues to address aren’t in dispute. Some containers of cables imported with taxpayers funds through ECG to the ports have been taken without requisite authority in manners that connote criminality.

The former ECG Board Chair and current NPP Parliamentary Chair Leader, Hon.Alexander kwamena Afenyo-Markin and other ECG leaders have even admitted that this syndicated loss of ECG products are reasons for concern. The public needs to know who were liable for the missing containers. It’s that simple

Source: Alfred Ogbamey