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Minister for Energy and Green Transition, John Jinapor announced that 40 out of the more than 1,300 missing containers from the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) have been located. These containers were linked to an Indian man.
An investigation discovered that over 1,300 containers intended for collection at the Tema Port were not accounted for. Prof. Innocent Senyo Acquah, who led the investigation, reported that ECG originally said they had 2,491 containers filled with cables and other necessary equipment.
However, an independent audit at the port found only 1,134 containers, meaning 1,347 were missing.
In an interview on TV3’s News Central on Thursday, March 27, the Minister explained that a foreign national, who is Indian, had been apprehended. National security had obtained information suggesting he had stored 40 of the missing containers in a warehouse in Kpone.
John Jinapor stated that during questioning, the Indian man claimed he had purchased these 40 containers the year before. The Minister confirmed the containers have now been securely stored.
He also mentioned that law enforcement continues to investigate the situation and emphasized that efforts are ongoing to recover all missing containers and hold those responsible accountable.
“The briefing I got this morning and let me commend the National Security Operatives and the law enforcement agencies, the information I got is that already they’ve traced about 40 of them to a particular terminal warehouse in Kpone which belonged to an Indian man and they have confiscated all the 40 containers and moved them to a secured location.
“The man indicates that those containers were sold to him last year and so that’s a matter of investigation that law enforcement agencies would ensure that the law takes its course.
“There are also reports of some other areas that they are picking intelligence, they will trace and retrieve all of them and fish out the perpetrators before the court of competent jurisdiction,” he stated.
John Jinapor cautioned that “let me just say that when we start prosecuting these people let no one say that this is witch-hunting. These are properties of the state, and we will use every legitimate means to ensure that we retrieve them.”
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