Months after former Managing Director of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Mr. Samuel Dubik Mahama, insisted that the company’s so-called missing containers were still at the port, his assertion has now been confirmed by ECG’s current leadership.
Mr. Mahama had in April 2025 rejected claims that more than 1,300 ECG-bound containers had vanished from the country’s ports, stressing that the consignments were never missing, but firmly under the custody of state authorities.
Speaking on TV3’s Ghana Tonight programme, he declared: “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.”
His remarks was after a report by the Energy Minister’s technical committee, which had raised alarms that ECG could not account for a large consignment of imported containers.
The revelation sparked heated public debate, with sections of the media and political circles suggesting possible mismanagement or even corruption at the state power distributor.
However, briefing Parliament’s Energy Committee over the weekend, ECG’s current Managing Director, Mr. Julius Kpekpena, confirmed that all 2,637 containers had been traced and were intact. He disclosed that the company had already begun clearing the consignment.
“We have started moving our containers from the ports; so far we have moved over 1,000 containers. Again, when we met in May, the news was that we couldn’t trace a lot of our containers. I am happy to say that we have traced all of our containers and we have started moving them from the port,” Mr. Kpekpena told MPs, according to Citi News.
The confirmation appears to vindicate Mr. Mahama, whose earlier position was widely doubted. Both men are now aligned in stressing that ECG never lost custody of the containers, since they had always remained under the control of GPHA and Customs.
The missing containers saga has been one of the most controversial issues to rock ECG in recent months, raising questions about accountability, transparency, and the company’s internal procurement processes.
Industry analysts say the discovery and clearance of the containers may ease tensions but will not erase concerns about how such confusion arose in the first place.
In addition to addressing the issue of the containers, Mr. Kpekpena also disclosed that ECG had renegotiated its contract with Hubtel, the company responsible for its revenue tracking and payment collection system.
The amended agreement slashes the commission paid to Hubtel from 3 percent to 1.65 percent, a move the ECG boss described as a “significant saving” for the power distributor.
