Matters Arising from Tsatsu v. Hammond

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• back door director 10 years ago

  I think you are now getting swollen headed by those pyrrhic victories at the supreme court.
  Go to court and face Tsatsu.
  
  You people run a lot of verbal diarrhoea. When you get into trouble you want to divert attention.

  I think you are now getting swollen headed by those pyrrhic victories at the supreme court.
  Go to court and face Tsatsu.
  
  You people run a lot of verbal diarrhoea. When you get into trouble you want to divert attention.

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• Bob 10 years ago

  ... or shut up.
  
  The man has provided the legal arguments backing his statement. If you think those arguments are wrong on legal grounds, then challenge them and tell us your reasons.
  
  If you don't know the law concerni ...
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  ... or shut up.
  
  The man has provided the legal arguments backing his statement. If you think those arguments are wrong on legal grounds, then challenge them and tell us your reasons.
  
  If you don't know the law concerning the issue, then you don't have to comment. You can ask for further clarifications.
  
  Saying Asare should come and meet Tsatsu in court is NOT and argument worth putting up here.
  
  DISCUSS THE ISSUE - IF YOU CAN!!!

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• Mahmoud 10 years ago

  Tsatu Tsikata should return the looted money to the rightful owners, tuck his tail under his legs and crawl away in shame.

  Tsatu Tsikata should return the looted money to the rightful owners, tuck his tail under his legs and crawl away in shame.

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• PETERS 10 years ago

  The accounting professor who says he knows the law better than Tsatsu must be reminded that the challenge has been thrown to him by none but the said Tsatsu Tsikta.
  
  Kwaku Asare, Tsikata says you should prove your mettle i ...
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  The accounting professor who says he knows the law better than Tsatsu must be reminded that the challenge has been thrown to him by none but the said Tsatsu Tsikta.
  
  Kwaku Asare, Tsikata says you should prove your mettle in court.
  
  Either accept the challenge or shut the fuck up. Show us what you've got!

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• PETERS 10 years ago

  The accounting professor who says he knows the law better than Tsatsu must be reminded that the challenge has been thrown to him by none but the said Tsatsu Tsikta.
  
  Kwaku Asare, Tsikata says you should prove your mettle i ...
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  The accounting professor who says he knows the law better than Tsatsu must be reminded that the challenge has been thrown to him by none but the said Tsatsu Tsikta.
  
  Kwaku Asare, Tsikata says you should prove your mettle in court.
  
  Either accept the challenge or shut the fuck up. Show us what you've got!

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• BARTELS 10 years ago

  It is so intriguing. KT Hammond is another NPP lawyer who was taught by Tsatsu.

  It is so intriguing. KT Hammond is another NPP lawyer who was taught by Tsatsu.

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• Odikr@ 10 years ago

  This Defence of KT Hammond by "proxy" is indicative of the "fix" has embroiled himself in.
  Loose talk and the ramifications.

  This Defence of KT Hammond by "proxy" is indicative of the "fix" has embroiled himself in.
  Loose talk and the ramifications.

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• telemo 10 years ago

  It seems you are all knowing. Come and represent K. T. Hammond in court and put into practice what you are preaching on the net. Only when you win the case will i take you serious. For now.......

  It seems you are all knowing. Come and represent K. T. Hammond in court and put into practice what you are preaching on the net. Only when you win the case will i take you serious. For now.......

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• Odikr@ 10 years ago

  This Defence of KT Hammond by "proxy" is indicative of the "fix " he has embroiled himself in;and the ramifications.

  This Defence of KT Hammond by "proxy" is indicative of the "fix " he has embroiled himself in;and the ramifications.

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• Yaw 10 years ago

  This professor is just throwing dusts into the eyes of the public with is legal acrobatics. He talks of culture of silence. if he is academic that he claims he is, then he should come out with another piece on the culture of ...
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  This professor is just throwing dusts into the eyes of the public with is legal acrobatics. He talks of culture of silence. if he is academic that he claims he is, then he should come out with another piece on the culture of silence that has engulfed his party the npp and that when someone of us will start taking him serious. If he has any legal advice to KT Hammond, why won't he meet Tsikata at the court rather displaying his knowledge on legal matters in the public gallery. Tsatsu has given KT Hammond the opportunity to have his day at court the professor has the chance to represent the respondent.

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• Bernard Afreh 10 years ago

  The learned professor has offered his line of arguments. Indeed, I find it worrisome and banal that critics would not proffer their own arguments but suggest that he should meet Tsatsu in court. How would we ordinary citizen ...
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  The learned professor has offered his line of arguments. Indeed, I find it worrisome and banal that critics would not proffer their own arguments but suggest that he should meet Tsatsu in court. How would we ordinary citizens be able to establish the truth about the gratuity. These days, it appears there is a certain pernicious influence pervading the society whereby people would readily defend others at the expense of the nation. The GNPC monies belong to every citizen and is it not disturbing that just four people who claim to be serving the nation would be given close to 3m ghana cedis, an amount that can take about 500 people out of stark poverty. The unorthodox means of trying to stifle public criticism in the name of legal suit ought to be condemned. GOD help Ghana!

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• Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago

  Azar, whilst you make some valid argument on some issues, I am afraid your suggestion of expanding the frontiers of parliamentary privilege beyond Parliament is neither here nor there. The fact is that it is only a privilege ...
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  Azar, whilst you make some valid argument on some issues, I am afraid your suggestion of expanding the frontiers of parliamentary privilege beyond Parliament is neither here nor there. The fact is that it is only a privilege which is used by members on rare occasions and not the norm. Indeed, even within parliament the misuse of this privilege could result in sanctions against offending members of the house, such as withdrawal of what was said and an apology. Here in the UK MPs and the Lords will dare not repeat a defamatory statement made in the houses using this privilege outside the Houses of Parliament. For example, just before the May 2015 General Election, the then Labour Leader, Ed Miliband used the word "doggy" to describe a Conservative Peer in the Lords and accused him of tax avoidance. The Lord or Peer challenged him to repeat the word doggy outside parliament and if he did so, would be sued for defamation. Ed Miliband repeated the tax avoidance allegation against the Peer outside parliament but refused to use the word doggy. This was because he was aware that his parliamentary privilege did not extend beyond parliament.
  
  If your argument of the privilege assisting an MP to carry out parliament duties be extended outside parliament holds water, why would the leader of Her Majesty's opposition be sacred of repeating the word doggy outside parliament when he was performing his duties as leader of the opposition outside parliament?
  
  Azar, this frontier extension if allowed will lead to abuse of the parliamentary privilege, particularly in an indisciplined society such as Ghana. It is dangerous to make such legal argument that would not be made in even the developed democracies such as the US and the UK because of the risk of abuse. We should not give MPs a licence to abuse others whenever they feel so or may disagree with others. Such open ended parliamentary privilege will no longer be a privilege but a weapon of parliamentary anarchy.

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• Okonko Palm 10 years ago

  You make a valid argument which surprisingly seems to escape Asare.The scope of the parliamentarian or politician had already being defined by law.
  
  Parliamentary privilege gives people speaking in Parliament legal immunity ...
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  You make a valid argument which surprisingly seems to escape Asare.The scope of the parliamentarian or politician had already being defined by law.
  
  Parliamentary privilege gives people speaking in Parliament legal immunity against being sued for libel however statement made outside parliament is not privileged or even qualified privilege and you stand to answer for any indiscretion or careless statement made in breach of the law.
  
  MPs like the rest of the public are not exempt from the law since it is a long established principle that no one is above the law – including MPs and that Parliamentary privilege was never intended to help politicians escape the law. The line and the scope is clear.
  
  There are many shades of defamation not least malicious falsehood which is much more likely to succeed in this case. In this instance, the only thing to prove is that the statement in question is not true.Tsikata has not received any money as alleged by Hammond
  
  Secondly The element of malice is an important one here, as evidenced in the name of the offence. Malice has been defined as a statement made by a person who knows it to be false or who is reckless as to its truth.
  
  Additionally it could be a false statement made by a person who is moved to this action by some improper motive.
  
  It seems to me that Asare is playing politics at the expense of his reputation with these infantile arguments.

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• LONTO-BOY 10 years ago

  Okonko Palm, this is sensible and well-expressed opinion. I totally agree with you.

  Okonko Palm, this is sensible and well-expressed opinion. I totally agree with you.

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• LONTO-BOY 10 years ago

  MASSA KOFI, Prof Asare's attempt to defend Mr K.T.Hammond against Mr Tsatsu Tsikata's defamation claim by trying to push the boundaries of Parliamentary Privilege is wrong. As you've pointed out, in the UK, Parliamentary Priv ...
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  MASSA KOFI, Prof Asare's attempt to defend Mr K.T.Hammond against Mr Tsatsu Tsikata's defamation claim by trying to push the boundaries of Parliamentary Privilege is wrong. As you've pointed out, in the UK, Parliamentary Privilege provides legal immunity for MPs, peers and select committees against being sued for libel, contempt and other offences. This enhances their ability to speak freely in parliament.
  
  Mr K.T. Hammond made statements that were wholly not true. This brings Mr Tsatsu Tsikata's personal integrity, dignity and reputation into disrepute, and expose him(Tsatsu) to accusations of dishonesty. Clearly, Mr Hammond knows his statements have generated a storm of publicity and if he was not acting out of malice, when it now clear he made wrongful accusations, he wouldn't continue to taunt Mr Tsikata in the media and stand by his statements in his public utterances. "Actual Malice" could be established in this defamation claim. Therefore, Mr Tsatsu Tsikata has reasonable grounds to sue for defamation against Mr K.T.Hammond.

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• Prof Lungu 10 years ago

  Professor Asare,
  When GNPC merely says they have "approved", can we conclude that they have "paid", that Tsatsu has "received", or even "cashed?
  
  What does that statement tell us, for real?

  Professor Asare,
  When GNPC merely says they have "approved", can we conclude that they have "paid", that Tsatsu has "received", or even "cashed?
  
  What does that statement tell us, for real?

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

  My brother Prof Lungu, the statement tells is clearly Mahama and his NDC government are corrupt and incompetent.

  My brother Prof Lungu, the statement tells is clearly Mahama and his NDC government are corrupt and incompetent.

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• Prof Lungu 10 years ago

  Impersonator!
  
  You are engaged in theft of another person's property. You, one from the group of "property-owning" nation wreckers.
  
  You are not C.Y. ANDY-K, and you cannot be our "brother" by your fraudulent activities. ...
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  Impersonator!
  
  You are engaged in theft of another person's property. You, one from the group of "property-owning" nation wreckers.
  
  You are not C.Y. ANDY-K, and you cannot be our "brother" by your fraudulent activities.
  
  Nice try!

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• Captein 10 years ago

  Was the Osagyefo barge illegally sold? I Ghana hiring a Turkish barge? Was Tsatsu jailed and almost died against his will? By Nana Addo? Did the proceeds from the barge sales go to public or to the president in a suitcase. D ...
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  Was the Osagyefo barge illegally sold? I Ghana hiring a Turkish barge? Was Tsatsu jailed and almost died against his will? By Nana Addo? Did the proceeds from the barge sales go to public or to the president in a suitcase. Did the NPP out of government behave they were still in government after the 8 years of looting government lands and houses? Did prof Mills bring unity by ignoring the NPP rot hence, asomdwehene until j

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• The truth 10 years ago

  We're not lawyers but confusing us with such loaded law jargons will not wash awaythe simpsimple defamation statement.You ccan't reply on euphemism or fuguratives to defame sb.

  We're not lawyers but confusing us with such loaded law jargons will not wash awaythe simpsimple defamation statement.You ccan't reply on euphemism or fuguratives to defame sb.

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• Roce Koran 10 years ago

  Azar, how do you prove that someone has received a payment. A payment voucher with payee's signature or receipt indicating cash or cheque received. KT Hammond should go to court and prove Tsatsu has been paid, show the crimin ...
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  Azar, how do you prove that someone has received a payment. A payment voucher with payee's signature or receipt indicating cash or cheque received. KT Hammond should go to court and prove Tsatsu has been paid, show the criminality of that payement and why Tsatsu should be investigated by EOCO period. This is what loosetalk lands you. KT talks like Sir John

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• Captein 10 years ago

  The same KT Hammond a former deputy of energy minister under Kufuor who actually messed up the energy sector in Ghana have the audacity to continue the blame game as if they are still in government. Under Kufuor it was all "V ...
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  The same KT Hammond a former deputy of energy minister under Kufuor who actually messed up the energy sector in Ghana have the audacity to continue the blame game as if they are still in government. Under Kufuor it was all "V" for Vendatta and witchhunting. And the only time things normalized was when Prof Mills preached peace and became tge ASOMDWEHENE.
  Now you tell me how Tsatsu could have demanded his due whe the CERTIFICATELESS attorney general now wanting to be president, favorite job was to jail Tsatsu, Selormey and Peprah to rot in jail.
  Remember justice delayed is justice denied so if it is the right time to pay him he has to be paid with all others.
  The only thieves Ghanaians know is the NPP looting brigade while in power. Obetsebi got a plush free refurbished government bungalow and he is only a standard seven graduate for instance.
  Hammond himself was a thief he went to London with fake court documents fro Akufo Addo to sell the Osagyefo barge with no receipts covering and the $3million plus dollar was stuck in a suitcase and flew firstclass seat to Ghana. That money was handed to kufuor we are told.Ghana has no barge and saw no money. We all know they behaved im such an unpatriotic way just to make Tsatsu who bought the barge for Ghana look bad.
  The cock is home to roost, and history will absorb Tsatsu and today the root course of our Dumsor. Lets face our history and those who do not know will blame NDC. The Mahama government has to resort now to a Turkish solution the same as the barge we sold a bit bigger. If we had run the Ogagyefo for all those fifteen yeaers we would have perfected its use and got an even better and bigger barge not from Turkey.
  MALICE from all yoi law, makola law statement that has made our judiciary lame and corrupt. There was a malice15 years ago by the same Hammond and co. and there is surely the more malice in 2015 from the NPP which makes your write-up a joke especially when the othe group are all political players playing tge bogus ethnocentric card played by Dr Busia under "491" when he fired all Ewe heads from the public sector.
  Tsatsu and all the others need to be paid fully to date with interest.
  Why should an illiterate who sits in parliament for four years then lose his seat and get all ex-gratia and those legendary people who formed the fondations of our energy industry will not be paid ex-gratia for so long a time and as a country we think it is right. I think we are all sick if we go by the useless NPP line of thinking.

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