The lead counsel for John Mahama at the ended 2020 election petition, Lawyer Tsatsu Tsikata revealed that he was forced to smoke during his days at the Mfantsipim Secondary school.
He disclosed in a recent interview on an Accra-based Pan African TV that he was asthmatic and his seniors at the Mfantsipim Secondary School used that to their advantage.
He said;
“The other aspect of it is that in those days I was quite asthmatic and I’m still asthmatic. In those days, one of the asthma medications was the asthma cigarettes which you inhale and those sought of helped clear the system of asthma.”
“I became a favorite of some of the bad boys in school because they saw that I was the only person who was allowed to smoke so occasionally they would come for a stick of asthma cigarettes in the hope that if they are caught smoking they would say that it’s the asthma cigarette. I was the only person that had the authorization to smoke. I became their friends because they needed my cigarette to show that they also had asthma.”
The former Chief Executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation also added that he was usually exempted from punishment by his seniors because of his smallish body.
“I got to Mfantsipim when I was nine and the beauty of being that little was that everybody protects you so you don’t experience any of the bullying. There was a lot of bullying but they didn’t touch me,” he said
