Insults Galore!

Even before the Supreme Court would begin hearing the election petition case brought before it by three leading members of the NPP, NPP apparatchiks began shouting from roof-tops that counsel for the third respondent, Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata, would be no match for their side in Court.

Then the hearings started. Tony Lithur, counsel for the First Respondent (President John Mahama) cross-examined Dr. Bawumia, the petitioners' star witness. Then counsel for the second respondent (EC), Mr. Quarshie Idun, took his turn to cross-examine Bawumia. Finally, it came to the turn of Tsatsu Tsikata, the man the NPP apparatchiks say cannot hurt their case.

Soon, the insults at Tsatsu started. Many Ghanaians have found this puzzling because the NPP apparatchiks claim his cross-examination poor and that Bawumia was handling him well. They claimed at one point that Bawumia was educating Tsatsu during cross- examination. One then would have expected the NPP apparatchiks to be happy - instead, they became angry, and continued to hurl all manner of insults at Tsatsu.

A couple of days ago, Enerst Owusu Bempah, an NPP apparatchiki during an interview on Okay FM called Tsatsu a 'blockhead'! The free Online Dictionary describes a blockhead as a 'very stupid' person. Wikipediadefines a blockheaded person as an 'idiot, a mentally deficient person. Therefore, Owusu Bempah's insult is clear!

A private lawyer, Dennis Ofosu Appiah, also during a programme on Radio XYZ on Saturday, May, 2012 described Tsatsu as a bad lawyer. He exposed himself as being jealous of Tsatsu, a fellow lawyer, he demanded to know the case Tsatsu has done so that his name would become a 'household name in the way that it is being handled.'

Just yesterday, another lawyer, the NPP's Buabeng Asamoah, ridiculed Tsatsu when, speaking on Okay FM, said Tsatsu uses 70% of his time to fight in court and 30% to ask some questions.

The NPP's General Secretary, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, alias Sir John who is also a lawyer says Tsatsu is the 'most boring lawyer' he has ever come across. Speaking on Asempa FM on Wednesday, 15thMay, 2013, he also said Tsatsu is not qualified to handle a case at the Supreme Court.

Dennis Ofosu Appiah, the lawyer who says Tsatsu is a bad lawyer again told Radio XYZ that Tsatsu's law licenses expired before the Supreme Court case. Yet, when asked to provide evidence, he could not.

An NPP hot head, Hopeson Adorye, told a private radio station that Tsatsu must complete the jail term he was wrongly sentenced to during the Kufuor era. Obviously, Tsatsu's shredding of Bawumia, turning him into a mince meat has so much hurt NPP members that they wished Ex-President Kufuor had not righted his wrong by freeing Tsatsu from prison.

But all these can be called 'diplomatic insults'. Raw insults of Tsatsu is on social media where NPP apparatchiks liberally insult him with impunity. Insults are also handed freely to the former GNPC boss on Oman FM, a pro-NPP radio station which has become Ghana's version of Rawanda's hate radio, Radio PTLM, which promoted the Rwandan genocide.

The irony is that the NPP apparatchiks are insulting Tsatsu at the same time claiming he is performing poorly at the Supreme Court! Obviously, their thinking is incongruous with the reality in court. Tsatsu's cross-examination of Bawumia has shredded their water-tight evidence, reducing it to a leaking basket. For this, the insults will definitely continue unabated.