Former Director-General of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA), Richard Anamoo, has expressed skepticism over claims made by the former Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) Managing Director, Samuel Dubik Mahama, to the effect that the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) Customs Division may have auctioned some of the alleged missing containers.

Mr Anamoo said it was unusual that Mr Dubik Mahama had reportedly written to the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) requesting that the containers not be auctioned, questioning the logic behind one government institution auctioning the goods of another.

“It sounds very strange to me because Customs is the government, and ECG is also the government. Customs collect revenue for the government, while ECG is also owed money by several state institutions, including the central government.

“It would be ridiculous for Customs to auction ECG’s goods without considering that the same government entities owe ECG for power supplied to the army, police, hospitals, and schools,” he remarked in an interview on JoyNews' The Pulse on Thursday, April 3.

Mr Dubik Mahama, in a Joy News interview, refuted claims that the company’s missing containers were truly lost, instead suggesting that they were either misplaced or auctioned by the GRA due to failure to clear them from the port.

According to him, he had written to the Customs division of GRA not to auction the containers.

Mr Anamoo further assured that the missing containers belonging to ECG could be traced, emphasising that relevant institutions have records of their whereabouts.

According to him, the GPHA maintains records of all container movements, whether they were transferred to another terminal, stored at an external facility, or auctioned due to overstaying at the port.

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“What I'm saying is that the containers can be found. If the containers were transferred to another terminal, GPHA would have records.

"The shipping line will also have records of their movement. Whether the goods were offloaded inside the port and the empty containers taken away, or if they were moved to an external terminal for overstayed containers before being auctioned, there will be data. As long as they remained within the confines of GPHA, there would be records,” he assured.