{"id":273592,"date":"2016-12-02T09:58:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T09:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=273592"},"modified":"2016-12-02T09:58:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T09:58:44","slug":"tsatsu-tsikatas-acquittal-wont-exonerate-him-ayikoi-otoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/tsatsu-tsikatas-acquittal-wont-exonerate-him-ayikoi-otoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsatsu Tsikata’s acquittal won’t exonerate him – Ayikoi Otoo"},"content":{"rendered":"
Former Attorney General under the Kufuor Administration, Joseph Nii Ayikoi Otoo has indicated that the latest verdict of the Court of Appeal which acquitted the former GNPC Boss, Tsatsu Tsikata for willfully causing financial loss to the state does not in any way exonerate him from wrongdoing.<\/p>\n
According to Ayikoi Otoo, the judgment of the Appeals Court explored technicalities in the law to drop the accusations without necessarily determining whether Tsatsu Tsikata was right or wrong in the matter.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”iHV6QTC6HDbJpzSq7tQeUxSrJbL7oG9h”]\u201cAs far as I am concerned it is a very critical narrow matter. No one has said he did nothing wrong. What they are saying is that he was not given the opportunity to call the witness that he wanted to call and it was nobody\u2019s fault. He kept calling the people who did not want to come so where are the facts that he has been proven not guilty.<\/p>\n
“As to the facts of the case, whether he did the proper thing or not I don\u2019t think the judges spoke about it. If this all that the judge said my understanding is that it is a very technical, narrow issue.\u201d<\/p>\n
The decision of the Appeals Court last Wednesday held that the judgment<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>of the High Court was a miscarriage of justice, because it did not give Mr. Tsikata a fair opportunity to defend himself.<\/p>\n The Court further went ahead to acquit and discharge Tsatsu Tsikata of all charges brought against him.<\/p>\n