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'...
The Accra press blames former GNPC managing director Tsatsu Tsikata for the debt but government officials are more cautious - at least until they have the result of the audit...
