Ex-ECG Boss Urges Calm and Clarity Over Ongoing Container Dispute—-Amid scrutiny over missing containers at the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), former Managing Director Samuel Dubik Mahama is calling for a balanced dialogue, redirecting focus to the company’s unprecedented financial turnaround and operational strides.
In a recent interview, Mahama emphasized ECG‘s leap in monthly revenue from an average of GHS 500 million to GHS 1.5 billion—placing it in the league of top-performing firms like MTN. “ECG is no cottage industry. It’s one of Ghana’s biggest revenue drivers now,” he stated.
Mahama credited this growth to a radical overhaul of internal operations, strategic pricing reforms, and a commercial shift in mindset. “We moved from thinking like engineers to operating like a business,” he explained, adding that ECG adopted a strict, non-negotiable engineering pricing model to drive revenue consistency.
Highlighting infrastructure challenges he inherited, Mahama pointed to a backlog of over 700 critical equipment projects and nearly 100 civil infrastructure needs, underscoring the operational constraints ECG overcame. He also noted a massive uptick in service efficiency, with monthly electricity meter installations scaling from 2,500 to 100,000 under a loss reduction project.
While public discourse centers on missing assets, Mahama urges stakeholders to view ECG’s broader transformation as a blueprint for state enterprise revitalization.
