The recent procurement scandal involving some 1,300 missing containers belonging to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) is fast becoming another forgotten story that starkly illustrates how political interference and the media’s contrived disinterest, continue to undermine the public interest.
It has been more than a fortnight, since the damning revelations about ECG’s procurement practices came to light, showing how billions of cedis were lost through the questionable importation of thousands of containers filled with electrical materials—cables, meters, transformers, and poles—meant to improve power distribution across Ghana.