THE REPUBLIC vs. TSATSU TSIKATA [2016]DLCA8616

Date	2016-11-30
Suit No.	SUIT NO. H2/6/2009
Citation No.	[2016]DLCA8616

KANYOKE J.A(PRESIDING)

KUSI-APPIAH J.A

ADJEI J.A

ASIAMAH SAMPONG FOR RESPONDENT

EDWARD DANKWA FOR APPELLANT

[2016]DLCA8616
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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color:#00B0F0;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">vs.<o:p></o:p>TSATSU TSIKATA<o:p></o:p>(APPELLANT)<o:p></o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL,
ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>ASIAMAH SAMPONG FOR RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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EDWARD DANKWA FOR
APPELLANT<o:p></o:p>

</div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">CORAM:<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>ADJEI,JA:<o:p></o:p>This
appeal emanated from the decision of the High Court Accra delivered on 18th
June, 2008 in which the Appellant herein, then the accused person was convicted
on counts one, two, three and four as contained in the charge sheet. The
Appellant was sentenced to a term of imprisonment for five years on each of the
four counts and the sentences were to run concurrently. The Appellant
dissatisfied with both conviction and sentence appealed to this Court to
reverse the judgment contained in the Notice of Appeal filed on 18th
June, 2008; the very day that the appellant was convicted and sentenced.<o:p></o:p>The
brief facts of the case which culminated in this appeal were that three counts
of offence for willfully causing financial loss to the State contrary to
section 179A (3) (a) of the Criminal Code now the Criminal Offences Act,1960
(Act&nbsp; 29) and a count&nbsp; of intentionally misapplying public property
contrary to Section 1(2) of the Public Property Protection Decree 1977 (S.M.C.D
140) now Public Property Protection Act,1977 (S.M.C.D) 140). The charge sheet
containing the four counts of offences provided thus:<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; “THE
REPUBLIC <o:p></o:p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; VS.<o:p></o:p>TSATSU TSIKATA<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>&nbsp; COUNT ONE<o:p></o:p>STATEMENT OF OFFENCE<o:p></o:p>Willfully causing financial loss to the&nbsp; State contrary to Section 179A(3)(a) of the
Criminal Code 1960 Act 29.<o:p></o:p>PARTICULARS OF OFFENCE<o:p></o:p>TSATSU TSIKATA&nbsp; the
Chief Executive&nbsp; of Ghana National
Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) IN OR ABOUT October,1996 in Accra in the Greater
Accra Region&nbsp; willfully caused financial
loss to the&nbsp; State by illegally
authorizing and causing to be paid the sum of Two Million Three Hundred and Six
Thousand Three Hundred and Seventy-Four French Francs Forty-One Centimes (FRF
2,306,374.41) equivalent of Seven hundred and Seventy-Five Million One Hundred
and Twenty –six&nbsp; thousand Three Hundred
and Ten Cedis (775,126,310) from the&nbsp;
accounts of GNPC&nbsp; to&nbsp; Caisse Francaise de Development on behalf of
Valley Farms Company Ltd., a private limited liability company which had
defaulted on a loan it had contracted from the said Caisse Francaise de
Development.<o:p></o:p>COUNT TWO<o:p></o:p>STATEMENT OF OFFENCE<o:p></o:p>Willfully causing financial loss to the State contrary to
Section 179A(3)(a) of the Criminal Code 1960 Act 29.<o:p></o:p>