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Free Tsatsu secures 6,000
signatures in campaign
Accra, Oct. 16, Ghanadot/GNA - The Free Tsatsu Tsikata
Campaign (FTTC) on Wednesday announced that it had collected
about 6,000 signatures, well above the 1,000 targeted when
it launched the signature campaign to protest against the
imprisonment of Tsikata, former Chief Executive of Ghana
National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC).
It said there were more signatures coming
from various parts of the country and were available for
inspection.
Mr Kwesi Pratt Jnr, Managing Editor of Insight Newspaper and
member of FTTC, speaking at a press conference in Accra,
said the group was still compiling names of signatories
after which copies would be presented to President John
Agyekum Kufuor, Chief Justice Mrs Justice Georgina Wood and
Tsikata himself.
He said those who signed onto FTTC come from all works of
life, including lawyers, academicians, journalists,
unemployed, students, shop-floor workers, traders and even
illiterates who had the documents read and explained to them
before they appended their thumbprints.
Mr Pratt said among those who had signed, were former
President Jerry John Rawlings, Professor John Evans
Atta-Mills, Flag bearer of National Democratic Congress (NDC)
and his running mate, John Dramani Mahama and Prof. Akilakpa
Sawyerr, former Vice Chancellor of University of Ghana and
retired Secretary General of Association of African
Universities.
Others included Alhaji Ahmed Ramadan, National Chairman and
Mr Bernard Mornah, Secretary of People's National Convention
(PNC), Prof. Ansah Asamoah of Sociology Department of
University of Ghana, Mr Kyeretwie Opoku, General Secretary
of National Reform Party, Mr Amo Godfred, former Ambassador
to Cuba and Dr Kwabena Duffuor, former Governor of Bank of
Ghana.
Mr Pratt said FTTC was encouraged by the massive public
response, which had found expression in participation in
public forums, street leafleting and the signature campaign
and thanked those who were part of these activities.
He said the signature campaign was not the end of the
campaign to free Tsikata and called on well meaning
Ghanaians who felt outraged by the injustice and unfairness
of the judgement of Mrs Justice Henrietta Abban to continue
to rally around the call for his freedom.
GNA
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