Anomic Season: Kufour Proves He is not a Politician

*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, PhD

**Submitted on January 5, 2013

“Former President Kufour has expressed dismay at attacks on him by some NPP

supporters over his insistence on attending the inaugural ceremony of

president-elect John Dramani Mahama. According to him, attending the ceremony will

never be a stab in the back of his party, the New Patriotic Party, but rather taking

responsibility as a statesman. However… Kufuor… said he will attend the ceremony in

his capacity as a former President of the country but some party supporters are

vehemently opposed to it. But, speaking exclusively on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen on

Friday… Kufuor noted that he is attending the inauguration ceremony because he was

invited as a former leader of the country, and not a politician” (Ghanaweb, January

4, 2013).

In the season of anomy

The vulture has claimed the carcass

As his beloved diet

Kufour will attend the Inauguration

Like the raindrop in the dry season

Produces balminess

But that dries up with rapidity

They say Kufour is a politician

Kufour says he is not a politician

Ah! These anomic seasons

Oh! Ah! Today

Delirious foes

Pretending to be friends

Soaring with inclusivity

Like vultures soaring over a carcass

In our sterile seasons

Of democracy

Of traumatic histories

Of seasons of thievery

Of seasons of benightedness

Of seasons of poverty

Of seasons of “tribal” hegemonies

Of seasons of anomy

They lured him

The crumpled the NPP giant

Oh! Ah! Today

J. A. Kufour

The giant of the NPP

Rose up like a crumpled man

A man without principles

A man with pedagogic vanity

Proclaimed his STATESMANSHIP

In shallow intellectual armory

In grandiose, but vacuous speech

In false heroic narrative

In elegiac vague terms

Tragic convenient truths

Pivoting betrayal

Pivoting passivity

Pivoting disloyalty

Pivoting irresponsibility

Pivoting deceitful declarations

Oh! Ah! Yesterday

Kufour

The NDC vilified him

The Othiefour thief

The Asante “tribalist”

The “baboon” of Kejetia

The most corrupt leader

But in the season of anomy

With their predictive poise

The nation-wrecker

In the season of anomy

Disillusion turns into disbelief

Kufour has been hailed

Proclaimed

By delirious foes

With clinical detachment

Hailed

They are hailing Kufour

Praised

Acclaimed

In the season of anomy

Has become the vulture

The vulture has claimed the carcass

As his beloved diet

Today

Like a raindrop in the dry season

They called him caring

Brave, intelligent, wise

Peace-maker

Ah! Yesterday

They hounded him

Asante “monkey”

“Baboon with red eyes”

Wicked giant

Mumu Kufour

Hotel Kufour

Whose office invaded by NDC

Today he found a new home

Dry patch of ground

Like a raindrop in the dry season

Hailed, admired

In the season of anomy

The vulture has claimed the carcass

As his beloved diet

Kufour will attend the Inauguration

Like the raindrop in the dry season

Produces balminess

But dries up with rapidity

They say Kufour is a politician

Kufour says he is not a politician

Ah! These anomic seasons

*Akadu Ntiriwa 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 My poems and essays on Ghanaweb

and elsewhere must not be reproduced in full or in part for any academic or

scholarly work without my written permission.