ECG Missing Containers: Nitiwul questions security architecture at Tema Port
Former Defence Minister Dominic Nitiwul has questioned the security architecture of the Tema Port following reports of missing excavators belonging to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).
An investigative report revealed that ECG had 2,491 uncleared containers filled with cables and other essential equipment at the Tema Port. However, an independent audit found only 1,134 containers, leaving 1,357 unaccounted for.
During a tour of aluminium smelting facilities in Shai-Osudoku on Friday, March 28, authorities discovered several coils of stolen ECG cables, which were components of the missing containers, melted into blocks and further processed into aluminium rods for export.
Nitiwul reacting to the matter on the floor of Parliament noted that “Containers do not have legs, they do not have wings to fly. Nobody can carry a 40 feet container. How is possible that all the security people there, it doesn’t matter what time and then these containers will move.
“First, they’re 10 containers. The next day, 20 containers. The next day, 50 containers, to over thousand something container. How? How is it possible?
“How is that possible? How is that possible? That says something. Maybe something is happening at the port. Maybe something bigger is happening at the port. If containers can get missing, then you can imagine other things that are there. Explosives, drugs, different different things.”
