Former chief executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Authority, Tsatsu Tsikata, could have been putting in a good word for the Supreme Court Judge who slapped a five-year sentence on him, to rise to the pinnacle of her career. At the first anniversary of the Free Tsatsu Movement in Accra, Mr Tsikata said: “In fact I wish the best for Mrs Justice Henrietta Abban.”
“I hope someday she also reaches the pinnacle of her professional career at the Supreme Court. Because unfortunately, there are other people at the Supreme Court already who actually are much junior to her and who are not any necessarily more competent than her but who probably got there for other political reasons and not legitimate reasons,” he said. “If she were to be a candidate for the Supreme Court, there will be nothing wrong with it and I wouldn’t expect any of you to go against her just because she did what she did,” Mr Tsikata told the gathering of supporters.
Mr Tsikata was given a five-year sentence in 2007 for wilfully causing financial loss to the state. The former GNPC boss stated that Ghana stands at great risk if its judiciary cannot be seen as the embodiment of justice. He described his incarceration as an act of God for good and asked that the movement founded to secure his release also fight for everyone who is unjustifiably imprisoned.
Meanwhile a leading member of the Free Tsatsu Movement Kwasi Pratt Junior says the Free Tsatsu campaign intends to set up a clinic at the freedom centre to fight injustice in the system. He said one important victory the movement can claim is that the opponents of the campaign who were calling for the incarceration of Mr. Tsikata are now in a similar situation out of government.
source:myjoyonline
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