Majority Leader in Parliament and Member of Parliament for Effutu, Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, has addressed recent concerns surrounding the disappearance of containers belonging to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), stressing that the board and management cannot be held responsible for missing goods at the port.
Speaking on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show on Friday, May 2, Afenyo-Markin, who previously chaired the ECG board, recounted a key intervention he made during his first board meeting.
He stated that he had insisted on revising a policy that exposed ECG to financial loss by terminating contracts at the port rather than upon delivery to company warehouses.
“It was I, Afenyo-Markin, upon seeing the policy at my first board meeting, said no, I’m a businessman. If ECG awards a contract and that contract terminates only at the port, ECG will lose,” he explained.
“So that policy should change, where ECG’s contract would terminate after delivery to our warehouses. And the board minutes witnessed that intervention by the board under my leadership,” he continued.
Afenyo-Markin emphasised that once containers arrive at the port, their security falls under the jurisdiction of the port authorities, not ECG’s board or management.
“If containers are missing at the port, it is not the responsibility of the board nor the management. It is the responsibility of the port authorities, because they are in custody of the containers,” he noted.
He further urged state agencies to direct their investigations accordingly, suggesting ECG should take legal action against the port authorities if necessary.
“ECG must sue the port. The state’s investigative agencies, national security, should query the port authorities, but not say that the board chairman should come and answer why a container brought in by an importer is missing,” he added.
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