Lawyer Tsatsu Tsikata Biography, Age, Education, Wife, Children, Parents, Net worth

Tsatsu Tsikata is a practicing Ghanaian lawyer. He is well-known as a National Democratic Congress affiliate and legal counsel (NDC).

Lawyer Tsatsu Tsikata is also known as “The Law Faculty” by some Ghanaians. The popular moniker “The Law Faculty” arose from his exceptional, intellectual, and courageous arguments on national and international laws.

The Personal Life of Lawyer Tsatsu Tsikata

Tsikata is a Christian and an elder at Accra’s Asbury Dunwell Church. As a child, he was known to have asthma, which appears to have limited his extracurricular activities and school attendance. He had an acute asthmatic attack after being imprisoned in 2008, which sent him to intensive care at the Nsawam prisons.

Tsatsu Tsikata’s siblings

Tsatsu Tsikata is one of his parents’ seven (7) children. Godwin Kwaku-Sru Tsikata, a retired Textiles Sales Manager with the United Africa Corporation, was his father (UAC).

Tsatsu Tsikata, a lawyer, was born in Keta, Ghana’s southern Volta Region. He was raised, however, in Adabraka, a suburb of Accra, Ghana’s capital.

Parents of lawyer Tsatsu Tsikata

Tsatsu Tsikata is the son of Lawyer Godwin Kwaku-Sru Tsikata and his wife.

Age of Lawyer Tsatsu Tsikata

Tsatsu Tsikata, a lawyer, was born on October 1, 1950. In October 2022, he was 72 years old.

Tsatsu Tsikata’s wife

Tsatsu Tsikata is a lawyer who is married to Esther Amba Numaba Cobbah, a Ghanaian communication expert and Communication Strategists. They have three kids. One of his children is award-winning Ghanaian musician Kwame Ametepee Tsikata, better known as M.anifest.

Tsatsu Tsikata’s Educational Qualifications

Tsatsu Tsikata, a lawyer, began school at a young age in order to keep up with his older brother Fui.

Tsatsu Tsikata attended Additrom Preparatory School and then Mrs. Sam’s Preparatory School, where the late former President of Ghana, Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings, also attended.

He was transferred once more to Accra Newtown Experimental School, where he was promoted from Year 2 to Year 3, allowing him to catch up with his older brother Fui.

Tsatsu Tsikata received a United Africa Company (UAC) scholarship in 1960 at the age of nine to begin his secondary education at the Mfantsipim School, where his father and elder brother, Fui Sokpoli Tsikata, also attended.

After finishing his five-year course, he was admitted to the University of Ghana, Legon, at the age of 16, where he earned an LL.B First Class Degree at the age of 18.

At the time, only one other 18-year-old had completed a degree program. Professor Ofosu Amaah and Dr. Obed Asamoah, a former Foreign Minister and Attorney General of Ghana, were among his lecturers.

He then received a post-graduate scholarship from the University of Ghana to Oxford University, where he earned another first-class honors degree in Bachelor of Civil Law, which is equivalent to a Master’s Degree at other British universities.

Tsatsu Tsikata’s Leadership Career

Tsatsu Tsikata, a lawyer, was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) by the then-ruling NDC led by Jerry Rawlings from October 1988 to December 2000.

Tsikata was a Junior Research Fellow at Oxford University, where he also tutored.

When he returned to Ghana in 1974, he was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Ghana’s law faculty.

Kwamena Ahwoi, Alban Bagbin, former majority leader in Ghana’s Parliament and Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament, and Freddie Blay, former first Deputy Speaker and Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament, were among his students.

Tsatsu Tsikata’s Legal Assistance to the NDC

In 2013, Lawyer Tsatsu Tsikata led a National Democratic Congress (NDC) legal team in court to argue a petition filed at the Supreme Court by New Patriotic Party 2012 Presidential Candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and the NDC won the case.

He also filed an ex parte application in Ho High Court on behalf of applicants from the towns who were barred from voting in the Hohoe constituency during the parliamentary elections.

As a result, the Ho High Court presided over by Justice George Buadi, issued an interim injunction preventing the Electoral Commission of Ghana from appointing John Peter Amewu as a Member of Parliament for the Hohoe Constituency.

He also represented the NDC in the Supreme Court of Ghana in the 2020 election petition filed by His Excellency President John Dramani Mahama.

Tsatsu Tsikata, a lawyer, also assisted Ghana and individuals who won numerous international cases.

Tsikata has advised a number of notable individuals over the years. Captain Kojo Tsikata, his cousin Kofi Awoonor, and former President Jerry Rawlings are among them.

During the military regimes of Acheampong’s National Redemption Council/Supreme Military Council, lawyer Tsatsu Tsikata defended Samuel Okudjeto and William Ofori Atta who were on trial for political reasons.

Following the May 15 Uprising in 1979, he represented Jerry Rawlings in the treason trial, which ended abruptly when the SMC military government led by Fred Akuffo was overthrown on June 4, 1979.

Tsatsu Tsikata, a lawyer at Ghana National Petroleum Corporation

Tsatsu Tsikata, a lawyer, was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) by the then-ruling NDC led by Jerry Rawlings from October 1988 to December 2000.

After a trial through the Accra Fast Track Tribunal, one of many set up by former President John Agyekum Kufuor’s government to try such cases, lawyer Tsatsu Tsikata was tried for causing the state a financial loss of GH230,000 while CEO of Ghana National Petroleum Company.

The trial began in 2002 and lasted six years. Mrs. Justice Hernrietta Abban found him guilty on June 18, 2008.

The trial is said to be the longest ever involving a former government official in the country’s history.

Those loyal to President John Agyekum Kufuor’s New Patriotic Party (NPP) government celebrated the verdict as a victory for the judicial system, while Tsikata sympathizers and National Democratic Congress (NDC) supporters saw it as politically motivated.

As a result, the “Free Tsatsu Movement” was formed. On his last day in office, after his party, the New Patriotic Party, lost the Ghanaian presidential election in 2008, he was granted an unconditional pardon by then-President John Agyekum Kufuor.

He was being treated at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital under prison guard at the time for a severe case of asthma.

Tsatsu Tsikata rejected the presidential pardon and later stated at a forum that he believed the pardon was not in good faith and that he would fight to clear his name in court.

After rejecting the presidential pardon, Lawyer Tsatsu Tsikata was granted bail by Justice Edward Amoako Asante at an Accra Fast-Track high court pending appeal on 13 January 2009, meaning he was no longer required to be in jail, though he was still admitted to the hospital due to his asthmatic attack.

After 8 years of being charged with causing financial loss to the state, he was declared innocent by an Appeals Court presided over by Justice Dennis Adjei on 30 November 2016, and his 5-year prison sentence was quashed.

Tsatsu Tsikata’s net worth

Tsatsu Tsikata’s net worth is unknown to the public. He earned his money legitimately through his leadership, law firm, and businesses.

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