Vol 3 (AAC) No 11 |
- GHANA
- OIL AND GAS
- ASIA
to a consultancy part-owned by Tsatsu Tsikata the influential member of the National Democratic Congress and former GNPC head (1998-2000)...
The former Chief Executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation Tsatsu Tsikata still has influence on energy policy particularly on the development of a gas network...
Kufuor pardoned several top officials convicted of various crimes including Tsatsu Tsikata former Chief Executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation who had been sentenced to five years in gaol for wilfully causing financial loss to the state...
The former Ghana National Petroleum Corporation head Tsatsu Tsikata will fight on against his conviction despite having received a presidential pardon from Kufuor...
Even his opponents concede that Tsatsu Tsikata is a gifted lawyer whose ties with ex-President Jerry John Rawlings have kept him at the centre of Ghana's bitter political battles...
Ex-President Jerry Rawlings's ally Tsatsu Tsikata former head of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation has been on trial for five years over a complicated loan guarantee amid a flurry of appeals...
In fact all the high-profile corruption cases involve officials or friends of the former NDC government such as the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation's former chief Tsatsu Tsikata; Sherry Ayittey confidante and colleague of former first lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings in connection with the sale of a parastatal rubber company; and Ato Ahwoi ex-NDC Minister and Chairman of the Accra football club Hearts of Oak over the transfer of a player to Germany in 2001...
This has revived interest in the deals signed by the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) during the 13-year tenure of former Chairman and Chief Executive Tsatsu Tsikata...
He resigned from the NDC government in 1995 after a battle over public finance with Tsatsu Tsikata then Chief Executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC)...
After challenging the constitutionality of the Fast Track courts Tsatsu Tsikata returned to face trial on 9 October over a GNPC loan guarantee to Valley Farms a private cocoa farming and export company...
Ghana cannot at present afford to buy the eventual product and the project is suspect there because of its association with Tsatsu Tsikata former Chief Executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation who resigned on the eve of the presidential election and now faces charges of causing the GNPC 'grave financial loss'...