The former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata, will spend the first day of his five-year incarceration term at the Police Headquarters in Accra. Armed policemen drove Tsatsu away from the court premises shortly after he filed an appeal against his conviction barely two hours after the Fast Track High Court sentenced him to five years imprisonment. The court found him guilty on three counts of wilfully causing financial loss to the State and a fourth charge of misapplying state property, and sentenced him to five years jail term on each count, with the sentences running concurrently. It is yet to be decided where he will serve his conviction. According to Joy News correspondent, Evans Mensah, Among Tsatsu’s grounds for the swift appeal are that the verdict is unreasonable and cannot be supported by the evidence, and also that the trial judge erred in law in deciding that financial loss has been caused simply because payment of monies had been made by the GNPC. Tsatsu also contends that the trial judge failed to consider that facts filed by the prosecution on a key prosecution witness had been totally discredited and that judgement relied on the same evidence to convict him without reference even to the cross-examination of the said witness by his (Tsatsu’s) counsel. Author: Isaac Yeboah