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Tsatsu files appeal against
trial judge
Accra, Aug. 3, Ghanadot/GNA – Tsatsu
Tsikata, jailed former Chief Executive of the Ghana National
Petroleum Company (GNPC) has filed an appeal for the Court
of Appeal to set aside the decision of the trial judge not
to disqualify herself from hearing his application for bail
pending appeal.
Tsikata stated in his appeal dated 31st July, 2008 that the
trial judge, Mrs. Justice Henrietta Abban could not be a
judge in her own cause by deciding that she was not
disqualified by bias from hearing the application for bail.
The application stated that, the application for a trial
within trial is the proper context in which a proper
determination about the bias of Mrs Justice Abban can be
decided.
Tsikata was on June 18, 2008, found guilty on three counts
of willfully causing financial loss of GH¢230,000 to the
state and another count of misapplying public property and
sentenced to five years imprisonment on each count to run
concurrently.
The former Chief Executive of the GNPC was charged in 2002
with three counts of willfully causing financial loss of GH¢230,000
to the state through a loan he guaranteed for Valley Farms,
a private cocoa producing company, on behalf of the GNPC and
another count of misapplying GH¢2,000 of public property.
Valley Farms contracted the loan from Caisse Francaise de
Development in 1991 but defaulted in the payment and the
GNPC, which acted as the guarantor, was compelled to pay it
in 1996.
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