We’ve set up a committee to investigate ECG’s procurements – Energy Minister

Minister for Energy and Green Transition, John Abdulai Jinapor has established a committee to look into procurements made by the Electricity Company of Ghana under the Akufo-Addo administration.

The energy minister said there’s reason to believe that the company has been engaging in what he says are “frivolous procurements.”

He disclosed on TV3’s Hot Issues on February 16, 2025 that about 3000 containers belonging to the ECG have been stacked at the ports which he said will cost the company about GHS 1.5 billion in terms of demurrage.

“It’s all because they are engaged in what I call very frivolous procurements. Now, they have about 3000 containers stacked at the ports generating demurrage of about GHS 1.5 billion, that is very unacceptable. Some of the things they’ve procured will last them ten years, some will even expire in five years.

“So we’ve commissioned a committee to investigate ECG’s procurements and the cost of these containers stacked at the ports the committee is doing a very good job,” he said.

John Jinapor asserted that per the preliminary report received by the committee, former managers at ECG did not follow due procurement processes and guidelines

“So far, the preliminary reports I have gotten indicate that there’s massive rot at ECG,” he added.

Following these revelations, John Jinapor noted that in the coming days, the Ministry will conduct a human resource audit and a complete audit of the energy sector.

This, he said will help the Energy Ministry to identify the inefficiencies in the sector and draft policies to deal with them.

“But beyond that there will be another technical report. What the PwC has done is a financial audit, we want to do a human resource audit, a deeper audit of all the energy sector which will then give us the clear picture as the inefficiencies so that we can tailor that in terms of our policy objective and policy directive to address this,” he stated.

The post We’ve set up a committee to investigate ECG’s procurements – Energy Minister first appeared on 3News.

Read Full Story