A Lull After Who Born Fire: JJ Returns With His Anti-MIILS-isms

*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.

“Jerry John Rawlings says he does not know the message of hope to deliver to the people at the next election campaign because of the inability of the NDC government to offer hope to the people and wondered why people see his criticism of President Mills as a personality clash” (Ghanaweb March 17, 2007)

Eh! Massa life don hard oh

Life hard for we trotro people

Eh! JJ talk matter for Mills

Great JJ is back again oh

You mean say for 19 years

The man dey love power

Na power sweet in Ghana

You no dey see MPs

You no dey see big man

Big woman corrupt too oh

Na so JJ leave power small

Yes, JJ comot power for NPP

Oh no be NPP wahala time

Whetin time you de talk

After he born dogs, fire

Hmm he inhale fire smoke

Na that smoke relax am paa

So JJ go back for old smoke

So you say JJ for leave Mills

Yes oh! JJ for leave Mills alone

But JJ be NDC & NDC be JJ

Na true oh NDC people fear

Hmm support JJ & get office

You see incest man hmm

Hmm he get Minister post

Oh! Eternal Thief ET too oh

Whetin JJ want for Mills

Whetin JJ want from Ghana

JJ attack great Nkrumah

Na so Busia, Kutu, Akuffo

He no leave Limann alone

Na so Kufour be Atta Ayi

Na dat be funny funny oh

Mills laugh proper proper

Now JJ dey attack Mills

JJ think he say he be god

Yes, JJ be god for some

No JJ be god for all Ghana

Why you dey say that thing

For 30 years de man enjoy

JJ enjoy everything for free

JJ de enjoy for our expense

Na him dey make an god

No Ghanaman be coward

No be coward but chop chop

Yes chop make I chop oh

JJ has everything anything

No he burn all him things

No JJ valuables no burn

Cars, dogs, photos no burn

Me I mean JJ for leave Mills

Oh! Na dat you dey talk

Well fire matter cool down

So whetin happen for fire

Our Pratt journalists be useless

Why you dey insult Oga Pratt

They no fit infest it koraa

Haba you mean investigate it

Na him be that oh Massa oh

I think say Mills for talk now

Hmm Mills cough Mills cough

If Mills dey cough he for spit

Yes, Mills for speak now oh

I agree Mills dey lose respect

Everyday JJ dey insult Mills

Whetin Mills for do now

They say silence mean concert

Oh you mean consent like agree

No Mills dey do Fante concert

No no you for no say that oh

But JJ don say that already oh

Hmm! I no understand all

JJ rule for 19 years, 19 years

Yes oh 19 bad years bad oh

Whetin de man do for us

He do things for himself

He kill us like rat for fire

He make us sleep 6 PM

Petrol shortage, food too

Articulator transport

Legon people close down

No essential commodity

Ghana money all finish

We dey buy raw kenkey

Yes, buy for queue & cook

Na we buy raw bread too

Infested yellow corn food

Eh! gari for morning

Hmm! gari for afternoon

Wow you get afternoon too

Rawlings’ hunger chain

Na that be Frorence chain

Na Ghana people suffer oh

Hmm we suffer under JJ

JJ give us hunger, death

JJ give us wee-smoking

JJ give us thief people

JJ give us probity thief

But na him we all de love

Yes, na dat we love oh

Eh! In Ghana, lie, steal

Women dey love you

Men dey love you oh

Police no go catch you

Soldiers go guard you

You get fanfu worship

You get rich state burial

You get good Osu burial

Eh! where we de go now

We no get direction oh

We dey go like wind

Reckless JJ don be road-map

Mills still de learn how to drive

Eh! Massa life don hard oh

Life hard for we trotro people

*Akadu N. Mensema, Ph. D., is a nationalist Denkyira beauty. She is a trained oral historian cum sociologist and Professor in the USA. She lives in Pennsylvania with her great mentor and teaches Africa-area studies at a college in Maryland. In her pastime, she writes what critics have called “populist hyperbolic, satirical” poetry. She can be reached at akadumensema@yahoo.com