1. The judgment of Mrs. Justice Henrietta Abban on 18th June 2008 when she had previously determined that she would await the decision of the Supreme Court on whether the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is immune from the jurisdiction of the Courts of Ghana was clearly premature with the Supreme Court judgment a week away.
2. GNPC investment in Westel has yielded over US$100 million; GNPC investment in Ecobank yielded over USS$11million;GNPC investment in Total yielded over US$6million; GNPC investment in Tano/Cape Three Points exploration is going to yield billions…
3. The prosecutions own major witness in the case, the American, Jim Wilson, testified that Valley Farms was doing well and the company was looking to make profit for shareholders.
4. Valley Farms has assets including large land tracts and nobody has said the value of these assets cannot repay GNPC
5. Nobody said that Tsatsu Tsikata instructed payment on the guarantee that was given to Caisse Francaise de Development Int. Justice Hnerietta Abban claimed that without citing any passage of evidence.
6. The Guarantee Agreement for which Tsatsu Tsikata is being condemned was signed by him in March 1991, long before the law on causing financial loss was passed in 1993. So Tsatsu is being punished by resort to criminal legislation retroactively which the Constitution forbids.
7. Mrs. Henrietta Abban exposed her political prejudice against Tsatsu Tsikata when talking of the law on causing financial loss having been passed by “the PNDC Government of which the accused was a member” when the law was actually passed by the NDC. Justice must be free of such political colour.
8. Mrs. Justice Henrietta Abban’s insistence on Tsatsu Tsikata carrying on in the absence of his counsel who had written to the court about his need to travel outside the country denied Tsatsu Tsikata his constitutional right to counsel of his own choice and, thus, denied him a right to a fair trial.
9. Tsatsu Tsikata has not been proved beyond reasonable doubt to have committed
any crime.
10. Tsatsu Tsikata has given selfless service to this country in many capacities, including as a law lecturer in The faculty of Ghana and as Chief Executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation. This is not the way to repay him.
Culled from: http://freetsatsu.com
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I did not study Law, I am not a lawyer, and I will not pretend to be one. Having said this, I will proceed to contribute to the Free Tsatsu clamour because obviously, this is not an issue for legal experts and brains only.
During the NDC rule, nine cases were heard by the Supreme Court of the Land. The government (NDC) won five and the opposition or minority took four.
The President at the time, JJ Rawlings who signed the 1992 constitution, never tampered with decisions made by the Supreme Court. Larry Koku, do not forget we are talking here about conflict resolution and national cohesion!
When the current NPP government came into office, the very first provocative action against the Judiciary in particular and the good people of Ghana in general is to steal the Supreme Court's verdict by crudely overturning its decision on the Fast Track Courts. The Kufuor-led NPP hurriedly reconstituted the judges of the highest court by loading it with NPP sympathizers! The criminality of it was that Justice Afreh who has a vested interest in the case, because he had already sat on the case, was included in the new set of judges to review the same case.
Clearly, the NPP government had given the indication that there was no court that was going to stand in their way, just as their predecessors, the Busia-led PP did.
Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata, is the number one man that the NPP government has been hunting for and have subsequently used Henrietta Abban, who does not deserve to earn "Justice" by her name, to achieve their purpose. One wonders how she passed her Law papers, anyway. Looking particularly at the REASON NO. 6 which reads "The Guarantee Agreement for which Tsatsu Tsikata is being condemned was signed by him in March 1991, long before the law on causing financial loss was passed in 1993. So Tsatsu is being punished by resort to criminal legislation retroactively which the constitution forbids", it is clear that it is a political trial which does not augur well for national cohesion. There are SCORES of NPP ministers and gurus, including the president himself who must stand trial for hacking and racking Ghana financially. It is also clear that a group of Anlo Ewes are being pursued by the NPP Administration. Koku, the conflict we all are avoiding as a Ghanaians is rather being fuelled by the NPP. I you want my opinion, I will tell you the government is being provocative. MR TSATSU TSIKATA MUST WALK, A FREE MAN NOW.
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