Tsatsu Tsikata is a former chief executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation.
23 Facts About Tsatsu Tsikata
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Tsatsu Tsikata is a notable affiliate and legal counsel to the National Democratic Congress and regarded as one of the leading members of the political party.
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Tsatsu Tsikata was however brought up in Adabraka, a suburb of Accra, the capital of Ghana.
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Tsatsu Tsikata started school at an early age because he wanted to follow his older brother Fui to school.
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Tsatsu Tsikata first attended Additrom Preparatory School and then Mrs Sam's Preparatory School, a school attended by former President of Ghana Jerry Rawlings.
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Tsatsu Tsikata was again moved to Accra Newtown Experimental School, where he was jumped from Year 2 to Year 3, catching up with his older brother Fui.
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Tsatsu Tsikata won a United Africa Company scholarship in 1960 to start his secondary education at the age of nine at the Mfantsipim School where his father and his elder brother, Fui Sokpoli Tsikata attended.
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Tsatsu Tsikata's lecturers included Professor Ofosu Amaah and Dr Obed Asamoah, a former foreign minister and Attorney General of Ghana.
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Tsatsu Tsikata then won a post-graduate scholarship from the University of Ghana to Oxford University where he again obtained first class honours in Bachelor of Civil Law which is equivalent to a master's degree at other British universities.
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Tsatsu Tsikata held a Junior Research Fellowship at Corpus Christi College Oxford University where he served as a tutor.
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Tsatsu Tsikata has served as counsel to a number of notable personalities over the years.
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Tsatsu Tsikata was the lead Counsel for the ruling National Democratic Congress in an electoral petition in Ghana.
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Tsatsu Tsikata was the lead counsel for the NDC during the first ever electoral petition trial filed by the opposition New Patriotic Party challenging the results of the 2012 elections.
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Tsatsu Tsikata was the lead counsel for John Mahama in the 2020 election petition against the electoral commission and the president.
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Tsatsu Tsikata was appointed the Chief Executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation from October 1988 to December 2000 by the then ruling NDC led by Jerry Rawlings.
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Tsatsu Tsikata was pronounced guilty on 18 June 2008 by Mrs Justice Hernrietta Abban.
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Tsatsu Tsikata was granted an unconditional pardon by the then President John Kufuor on his last day of office after his party, the New Patriotic Party lost the Ghanaian presidential election, 2008.
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Tsatsu Tsikata rejected the presidential pardon and announced at a forum later that he felt the pardon was not in good faith and that he would fight through the court system to clear his name.
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Tsatsu Tsikata is Christian and an elder of the Asbury Dunwell Church in Accra.
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Tsatsu Tsikata is a known asthmatic and this appears to have limited his extracurricular activities and school attendance as a child.
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Tsatsu Tsikata's father was Godwin Kwaku-Sru Tsikata, a retired Textiles Sales Manager with the United Africa Corporation.
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Tsatsu Tsikata is married to Esther Cobbah and they have three children.
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Tsatsu Tsikata's older brother Fui Tsikata is a well known lawyer in Ghana as is his sister Doe Tsikata.