Energy Minister confirms 40 missing ECG containers found in Tamale warehouse

The Minister for Energy and Green Transition, John Abdulai Jinapor, has revealed that security operatives have traced 40 out of over 1,300 missing containers belonging to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to a warehouse in Pong-Tamale, a community in the Savelugu-Nanton District of the Northern Region.

Speaking in an interview on Joy FM on Thursday, March 26, 2025, Mr Jinapor disclosed the latest development in the ongoing investigations.

“The briefing I got this morning is that National Security and the law enforcement agencies have already traced about 40 of them to a particular terminal or warehouse in Pong, which belongs to an Indian man of extraction,” he said.

“They’ve confiscated all 40 and are moving them to a secured location.”

According to Mr Jinapor, the Indian businessman who owns the warehouse claimed he bought the containers last year. The matter is now under criminal investigation, with National Security and the police pursuing further leads.

“There are reports of some other locations where intelligence is being gathered,” he said.

“They will trace all of them, retrieve the containers, and put those responsible before a court of competent jurisdiction.”

The minister warned against politicising any future prosecutions, stressing that the missing containers are state property and that the law will take its course.

“Let me just say this: when we start prosecuting these people, let nobody say we are witch-hunting. These are properties of the state. We will use every legal means to recover them and hold those behind it to account,” he stated.

The disappearance of more than 1,300 ECG containers has sparked public concern over the management of state assets. The containers are believed to have contained electrical materials intended for various ECG projects.