Missing ECG containers report submitted to AG for prosecution – Jinapor

Minister for Energy and Green Transition, John Abdulai Jinapor, has announced that his ministry has submitted a report concerning the missing Electricity Company of Ghana(ECG) containers to the Attorney General’s office.

Speaking during a working visit to the ECG in Accra on Friday, October 17, Mr Jinapor confirmed that the committee’s report has been forwarded to the Attorney General to prosecute individuals who may be found responsible for causing financial loss to the state.

“As Minister, I have had to work extra hard with the other stakeholders, and I want to thank the GHAPOHA staff, Chief Executive, and to thank the National Security Coordinator and his staff, and thank the Chief of Staff, Madam Akosua and co, for helping us to move those containers. It’s been a very, very difficult task, but like I said, we should never go down that path again. And as Minister, I will not tolerate that. If it happened in the past, it must not happen today. We’ve forwarded the full document to the Attorney General, he’s studying it, and if people are found culpable and there are concomitant effects, the law will take its course. We are not victimising anybody,” he said.

John Jinapor further noted that ECG’s management has reviewed 347 contracts and successfully terminated 202 of them without incurring costs or legal implications.

‘Your MD and the team have reviewed most of the contracts. Of the 347 contracts that they’ve reviewed, they’ve successfully, without cost and without legal implication, terminated 202 of those contracts. What it means is that you didn’t need those over 200 contracts. And yet, somebody decided that he would sign those contracts,” he added.

In March 2025, the Energy Ministry revealed that about 1,300 containers belonging to ECG could not be traced. Only 40 were recovered at the time. The Minister subsequently set up a special committee to investigate the matter.

After months of work, the committee traced over 2,600 containers, with about 1,500 cleared from the ports.