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Free Tsatsu campaign condemns NPP General Secretary’s
statement
Accra, Sept 2, Ghanadot/GNA – The Free Tsatsu Campaign
(FTC), a pressure group seeking the release from jail of
Tsatsu Tsikata, former Chief Executive of the Ghana National
Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), has said having jailed an
innocent man, the government is seeking to justify its
actions by inventing and peddling falsehood.
This was in reaction to a statement it said Nana Ohene Ntow,
General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), made at
a rally at Bukom Square on Friday that Tsikata was given
resources for oil exploration but he used the money for
banana exploration and for telephone.
“This is untrue and mischievous. Tsatsu was neither charged
for nor convicted of spending money on banana cultivation or
telephones,’’ FTC said in a statement signed by Mr kyeretwie
Opoku, a member of the movement.
The statement said the mention of “telephone’’ must have
been in reference to the investment in WESTEL that the
government recently sold for over one hundred million
dollars.
It said the establishment of WESTEL was part of investments
in infrastructure for the development of hydrocarbon
resources and that the manner in which the NPP referred to
this important national asset demonstrated a complete lack
of knowledge about the oil industry and dishonesty.
The statement said in making this statement publicly on the
same political platform as Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the
NPP presidential aspirant who was the Attorney General at
the time Tsatsu was charged and who led the initial
prosecution, the NPP has once again confirmed that it took a
political decision to jail an innocent person using the
instrumentality of the judiciary.
GNA
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