Tsikata:overrated,sucks on bar ethics!

I see someone has been talking about ethics of the Bar lately and I see

that person is Mr. Tsikata. Of all the wonders in the world, that is the

most shocking. I would have been less shocked hearing that the Head of the

Boko Haram group has convicted to Christianity and enrolled at Havard or

Oxford for a degree in theology,less shocked, than hearing Tsikata speak

about the ethics of the Bar. If there is one lawyer alive, who has shown

contempt and disregard for the ethics of the Bar, it is Tsikata. Being a

right thinking human being I believe I share some similar views with

Tsikata on the ethics of the Bar. What I wonder at, though, is why his

conclusion is so perverted by failing to see that, indeed,it is he who

needs some lectures and assessment on ethics of the Bar and not any other

person.I am confident in saying that with regards to Bar ethics, even

Kpegah,at his mischievous best does better dignity to the Bar than Tsikata.

It is not my view, and I believe his too, that it was an adherence to the

ethics of the Bar that saw him in prison for misappropriation of public

funds and causing financial loss. I do not think too, and I believe he does

not think too, that it was the ethics of the Bar that motivated his lot of

rabid supporters to send those life threatening text messages to Her

Ladyships Justice Helena Inkumsah-Abban and Henrietta Abban, because they

unintelligently couldn’t distinguish between the two. I do not think, and I

am most sure that Mr. Tsikata agrees with me, that the ethics of the Bar do

not include inspiring and taking active part in a ‘Free Tsatsu Movement’

when a case is still before the court and Tsatsu is the accused. I do not

think, and I know Mr. Tsikata does not think so too, that the ethics of the

Bar include insulting and attacking the persons of judges who sit on cases,

just because you disagree with the verdicts they pass. I know that in all,

anyone with any knowledge of the ethics of the Bar, like Mr. Tsikata, who

so willfully and at their convenience flout its dictates, has no business

whatsoever preaching to others on the ethics of the Bar. If the ethics of

the Bar, favor what Mr. Tsikata has done in the past, then it is indeed

very low. If it deprecates it, as I believe it does, then Tsikata is low

and must not insult the intelligence of others by pretending to be a friend

of the ethics of the Bar. Mr. Tsikata, as a walking definition of hypocrisy

has no business lecturing anyone on anything other than how to

misappropriate public funds and get away with it by feigning death. I do

not insult Tsikata when I call him a hypocrite, I only point out his

current position.The very fact at Tsikata is today walking the free streets

of Ghana and taking the byways of it, shows how hypocritical he is. Having

rejected the offer of the Presidential Pardon in the most vitriolic terms,

one would have expected the so-called legal wizard to have stayed in jail

and fight his case as he promised to do. The height of hypocrisy, years

after,it has been revealed, is not the offer of presidential pardon H.E.

Kuffour gave to a convicted criminal called Tsatsu Tsikata, but rather the

rejection of that offer in public while taking it and making benefit out of

it in private. I think the most unethical thing of recent, has been the

attempt by Tsikata and his Ndc to delay as long as possible the

determination of the NPP's petition before the Supreme Court. There is

nothing more unethical with at the Bar than this blatant abuse of the court

processes that Tsikata has engineered from the smoke filled rooms of his

Ndc and which is meant at delaying the speedy adjudication of what promises

to be Ghana's most important constitutional case. I am however happy that

things are turning out against him. In his indecent haste he forgot that

what people laud him for, is actually mythical and that he is not as good a

lawyer as the members of the Ndc would have Ghanaians believe. He forgot

that indeed the last and only time he met Nana Addo in court, sometime in

1973, he got an ugly thrashing, a 9-0 verdict against him. He forgot that

the very few times he has been mentioned in the Ghana Law Reports, he has

always been mentioned as a junior lawyer, assisting a more learned lawyer

and that his contribution to such cases have only been nominal and not as

tremendous as he claims. But then who can blame Tsikata? I think his end is

near and as the famous saying goes,those who the gods want to destroy they

first make mad. The gods seem to have struck him with a madness that makes

him assume he is the best thing that ever happened to the legal fraternity

in Ghana.The gods are actually ensuring that he is stripped of all the

propaganda merits he has sponsored in the minds of his supporters.It is

more like fate's way of correcting a mistake she made some years back.

Tsikata, now a victim of lies, propaganda, self serving praise believes

that he is an exceptional lawyer even though all the facts even available

to himself shows the otherwise. I daresay it isn't natural that even when

he was about to retire on all these praises which could never have been

authenticated fate throws into our country a most novel case and he,

without much thought or consideration applies to be joined. I have always

known fate to be crafty but this time her cunning is most impressive. Her

game plan is better than any chess strategist can ever dream of. She

watched patiently as members of the Ndc, against all facts, against all

truth and against all honesty, lauded Mr. Tsikata as an exceptional lawyer.

She watched patiently as those lies and flattery got to the head of Mr.

Tsikata, till he himself begun to believe same and believing it, turned

arrogant, proud and utterly as well as indecently excessive in his claims

to legal ability. Crafty fate has now led Tsikata to the point of disgrace,

for that is what he experiences each day the Supreme Court sits and that is

more of what he would experience if he begins his cross-examination of

Dr.Bawumia. That indeed would also be what he would experience, when in the

full glare of Ghanaians he is exposed to be no less than any average

lawyer. When it is shown that the book of life of lawyers,the Ghana Law

Reports,knows very little about this man called Tsikata(except the few

diplomatic mentions he gets). As one can see Mr. Tsikata is frustrated. One

can however understand his source of frustration. After enjoying those

false and undeserved accolades as an exceptional lawyer , he is now being

put to the test and as expected he is failing to impress.He is now faced

with a real legal challenge, that requires more than just sarcasm and

insults to address. His so-called brilliance has been belittled to the

point where even his followers wonder if he has some unknown game plan that

he is working on. His contribution to the whole process,they have also

noted, has been nothing but the tantrums and useless objections he raises,

much of which the court has depreciated in the strongest manner. Mr.

Tsikata seems troubled by the high hopes that his flock of Ndc supporters

have of him, hopes that were built during his trial when he failed to

acknowledge the excellent work his lawyers, two lawyers who unlike him are

no strangers to mentions in the Ghana Law Reports and can safely assume the

merit of being called good lawyers, Prof. E.V.O. Dankwa and R.S. Agbenoto.

The Ndc can continue to believe their own lies. But everyone knows, that

Tsikata is merely overrated and awfully sucks on Bar ethics.