For the NDC one of the most egregious cases was the botched arrest of Tsatsu Tsikata on a Sunday in church in Accra in March 2002 during John Agyekum Kufour's NPP presidency...
Their legal team led by Tsatsu Tsikata rejected not only the decision upholding the EC's declaration but also what they regarded as judicial bias and undue protection of EC Chair Jean Adukwei Mensa...
This broke a central plank in the strategy of Mahama's legal team which included former Deputy Attorney General Dominic Ayine and star advocate Tsatsu Tsikata who would have led the cross-examination of the often impolitic Mensah...
Given the NDC legal team's cross-examination was going to be led by Tsatsu Tsikata one of the country's most eminent advocates the petitioners had looked set to score some important points...
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But public sympathy had been growing for the petitioners after the Supreme Court ruled that Jean Mensa chairwoman of the Electoral Commission should not have to give testimony to the court or face cross-examination by the opposition's legal team led by Tsatsu Tsikata...
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This week Tsatsu Tsikata a leading member of the opposition National Democratic Congress's legal team is due to cross-examine Jean Mensa the chairwoman of the Electoral Commission (EC) at the Supreme Court panel hearing the petition calling for the cancellation of the December election results (AC Vol 62 No 2 Both sides go to court & Vol 62 No 1 Skirt and blouse politics)...
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Some of Yankey's biggest critics are in the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation which led the push for exploration in the 1980s and 1990s under its former Chairman Tsatsu Tsikata...
Since 2001 Hammond Albert Kan Dapaah who was Energy Minister at the time and other NPP leaders have claimed that the former GNPC Chairman Tsatsu Tsikata was personally responsible for the heavy losses from the derivatives...
NDC counsel Tsatsu Tsikata's cross-examination of Mahamudu Bawumia Akufo-Addo's running mate on the pink sheet serial numbers turned into a feat of physical endurance for both men...
The NDC's lead counsel Tsatsu Tsikata has argued that the NPP legal team had made serious errors in compiling its case: his team has questioned the validity of the 400 000 documents and copies that the NPP submitted to the Court...
