Former Defence Minister Dominic Nitiwul has raised serious concerns about the security architecture at the Tema Port, following the disappearance of over 1,300 ECG containers filled with electrical equipment.
An investigative report revealed that out of 2,491 uncleared ECG containers at the port, an independent audit accounted for only 1,134. Authorities later discovered stolen ECG cables, components of the missing containers, being processed at an aluminum smelting facility in Shai-Osudoku.
Speaking in Parliament, Nitiwul questioned how such a large number of containers could disappear without detection. “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?”
He expressed alarm at the scale of the disappearance, suggesting that if containers can vanish, other illicit goods like explosives and drugs could also be moving through the port undetected. “How is that possible? That says something. Maybe something bigger is happening at the port,” he stated, calling for a thorough investigation into the security protocols at Tema Port.
