Renowned communications strategist, Esther Cobbah, has recounted the emotional moment she reacted to her husband Tsatsu Tsikata being sentenced to prison.

Speaking in an interview with Kwaku Sintim-Misa (KSM) aired on May 1, 2026, Cobbah reflected on the experience, describing a period marked by resilience, faith, and quiet strength.

She said her immediate focus was not on herself, but on her husband’s situation and the hope of seeing him free again.

She revealed that at the most difficult the only words she could think of in her response to a journalist at the time was, “God is watching.”

“I don’t remember thinking about myself… it was all about him,” she said.

She added that she only later realised how much she had endured physically and emotionally during that period.

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Cobbah explained that on the day of the sentencing, she initially stayed home, expecting a routine court appearance. However, a call from Tsikata’s younger brother changed everything.

“He (her brother) told me, ‘Your husband is going to prison.’ I was surprised because I knew there were pending issues at the Supreme Court,” she recounted.

Rushing to the court, she described a tense atmosphere, with heavy security presence.

Inside, she found Tsikata standing alone, attempting to defend himself without legal representation.

“I found it awkward because I knew every citizen has a right to a lawyer, even if the person is a lawyer,” she said.

Despite the unfolding events, Cobbah said she made a conscious decision not to give in to anger or resentment.

“I told myself I had a choice; to be resentful or to ask God to use this for something. I knew resentment would paralyse me,” she explained.

After the sentencing, she followed her husband as he calmly began writing his appeal, even as security officers waited to take him away.

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“I stood there, watching him write… holding off the police and telling them to give him time,” she said.

It was shortly after this moment, as Tsikata was being taken away, that a journalist approached her for a reaction.

“I sat in my car, and a journalist came to me with a microphone and asked how I felt. All that came out of me was, ‘God is watching,’” she recalled.

Cobbah said looking back, she is sometimes surprised by the strength she demonstrated during that period, describing it as a defining moment shaped by faith and resolve.

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