Tsatsu Tsikata, former Chief Executive of Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, says he will accept payment from the corporation as his end-of-service benefits, a decade-and-a-half after leaving office.

Mr. Tsikata has insisted that GNPC owes him, even though he is not able to readily quantify how much he is owed.

According to him, the GNPC owes him salaries and provident fund benefits that were due him at the time of leaving office in 2001.

The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation confirmed that it approved payments to him and three other former employees of the Corporation, comprising one other former Chief Executive and two Managers. The four served the Corporation for periods ranging between 12 and 21 years.

Member of Parliament for Adansi Asokwa, K.T. Hammond has raised issues with the payment and called on the president to investigate it. He has been sued by Mr. Tsikata for insinuating that he is benefitting from criminal payments by the GNPC.

A statement released by the Corporate Affairs Department of the GNPC, described payment to the two former Chief Executives of the Corporation, Messrs Tsatsu Tsikata and Nana Boakye Asafo-Adjei, as well as Benjamin Dagadu, Field Evaluation and Development Manager and Esther Cobbah, Public Affairs Manager, as “valid obligation”.

Mr. Tsikata told Kojo Yankson, host of Joy FM’s Super Morning Show Wednesday, that the payment “would be proper” and that he would accept it.

“I will accept entitlement being restored to me because those are entitlements, nobody is doing me a favour in that context especially when it is being done as part of a comprehensive resolution of what I see as historical failures to address these matters. I think that would be proper,” he said.