Ghana @ 50 et al

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 Source: Isaac Karikari

By Isaac Karikari (bkkarikari@yahoo.com)

This is just the news in verse.

All the news that get you to muse.

The Probe continues for Ghana @ 50.

Is it to see those who chopped money when Ghana chopped 50,

Or it is to prove that some chopped money when Ghana chopped 50?

It is with trepidation that some watch

Cos they think a plot has been hatched.

A plot to deliver “the first batch”

Whose “hands-are-in”,

For the Nsa-wam grill.

Others have got probes in orbit

But we’ve got one for audit.

That may sound like a thought from a cynic.

But with poly ticks stuck on it

What do you expect?

Who likes a dog with fleas?

But there is a bright side,

If everything is done right

Acrimonious flames will be doused

By Justice Douse

And discordant sounds and noises hushed

With this Ghana @ 50 probe

We’ll see many a robe

Lose its gleam and sheen

Well before the curtains drop on this scene.

It’s been enthralling

And it’s really offered some thrills

We’ve seen some Men become men

And others reduced to boys and babes-

Lacking coherence in thought and speech.

Its ironical, just ironical considering that these are Big Men

It seems a glint from Justice Douse’s bifocals

Or a stare from behind those bifocals

Has been with these as a snake charmer’s flute is with snakes.

It appears to me

As some other version of Money Galore,

With the Kafus and Muntakas obscured

And the Nutor Vugas stealing the show.

Within the precincts of Ghana @ 50,

The Archer has been told not to fly any arrows

He is noted for increasing people’s sorrows

For any arrows he lets fly you hear cries

-that is his hallmark.

He just got Tarzan howling.

Do you remember H-Esseku and the kickback?

Other Matters:

What is the meaning of Agbogbloshie?

And what’s this we hear of guerillas in our midst,

Even as some enroll for robbery degrees?

Let’s work on our families,

We don’t want our society in tatters.

Now, the TOR debt

- Isn’t it just too tall?

I fear all this dirt,

If not cleaned, will eventually

Result in TOR’s death.

Premix went blue and the issues got bluer

- “special privileges” for those under the umbrella?

We celebrate Nkrumah

Tis good. Tis necessary.

Our heroes deserve it.

Hope tis great things beginning to dawn

And not just someone’s political pawn.

Let’s celebrate our founders

- there are many unknown and unsung.

What would you do,

If the founder who found you

Is no longer fond of you?

Change your style,

Or be like that?

Check the deck you’ve got

And deal yourself a new hand.

If you’re losing steam

Just change your team.

I’m waiting to see those who’ll be axed

Can’t wait to see the new team unmasked.

Z for zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

If you can’t wake up and live

Keeping a book in your face, or

Keeping your face in a book

May seem like a smart thing.

It sounds amusing

And I guess it’s got many bemused.

Up North, are there moves to dim a Star?

Wouldn’t that be a tumbling down the stair?

We need to move forward

Cos we desire a better Ghana.

When there is fire on the mountain.

We run…but with caution.

B’cos “they stumble that make haste”(Shakespeare)

Source: Isaac Karikari