Mustapha Gbande, Deputy Director in charge of Operations at the Presidency, has demanded the immediate arrest of three key individuals over the disappearance of more than 1,300 containers belonging to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) at Tema Port.
Speaking on Citi FM's Eyewitness News, Gbande accused former ECG Board Chairman Alexander Afenyo-Markin, former Energy Minister Matthew Opoku Prempeh, and former ECG CEO Samuel Dubik Mahama of being responsible for the missing containers. "The Board Chairman, Afenyo-Markin, now wants to run away from responsibility, and it is in the interest of the country for him to be arrested immediately," he stated.
Gbande further emphasized that corruption of this scale should not go unpunished, urging immediate legal action. "I am calling for the immediate arrest of Afenyo-Markin, Samuel Dubik Mahama, and Matthew Opoku Prempeh because we cannot continue to have these instances of corruption, and it is time for us to take action." The controversy surrounding the missing ECG containers has raised serious concerns about accountability within the power sector.
Initial reports suggested that ECG had 2,491 uncleared containers at Tema Port, but an audit revealed only 1,134, leaving over 1,300 unaccounted for.
