Indian arrested for owning 40 of over 1300 missing ECG containers – Energy Minister

An Indian national has been arrested by National Security Operatives after intelligence indicated that he was in possession of 40 of the over 1300 missing containers belonging to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).

According to the Minster for Energy and Green Transition, John Jinapor the foreign national claimed that the containers which he had kept at a warehouse in Kpone were sold to him in 2024.

Speaking in an interview on TV3’s News Central, John Jinapor said the containers have now been retrieved and kept in a safe location.

He noted that at the right time the Ministry together with the media and other relevant authorities will proceed to inspect the retrieved containers.

“One person, an Indian man of extraction has been picked up by the National Security. They have been intercepted and he claims that they were sold to him last year.

“Investigations would continue, we want to secure the containers first and at the right time we will go with the media to inspect the containers, the law will take its course,” he stated.

An investigative report on the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) uncovered that more than 1,300 containers, which were meant to be cleared at the Tema Port, were unaccounted for.

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According to Prof. Innocent Senyo Acquah, chairman of the investigative committee, ECG initially claimed to have 2,491 uncleared containers filled with cables and other essential equipment. However, an independent audit at the port found only 1,134 containers, leaving 1,347 missing.

He noted that law enforcement agencies are still investigating the case and assured that all the missing containers will be retrieved and persons responsible will face the law.

“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.

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“There are also reports of some other areas that they are picking intelligence, they will trace and retrieve all of them and 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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