*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.
“P. V. Obeng, Kofi Totobi Kwakye, Ato Ahwoi, and Kwamena Ahwoi, all of the NDC, say their attention has been drawn to a scurrilous anonymous tract circulating within the NDC circles and in some selected media houses obviously in reaction to their perceived roles in the administration of Atta Mills. A joint public statement released by the four on Tuesday read; ‘we have in the past been very concerned about similar publications in which we have often come in for unfair attacks and
criticisms’” (Ghanaweb February 16, 2012)
Our silence
Our cowardice
Have nurtured
Have flowered
Have given bouquets
To the Socialist thieves
Legon Socialist vultures
That patented our poverty
That preys on tacit Ghanaians
Like the vultures & a carcasses
Socialist predators
That preached poverty
Ah! One man one toilet
Today they are billionaires
Today each has 2000 toilets
The Ahwoises
The PV Obengs
The Totobi Kwakyes
Ah! Hypocritical Socialists
Who just wanted to steal
To enrich themselves
To impoverish the masses
They urged JJ to kill Kutu & Co
They urged JJ to suffocate Liman
Called Liman names
“Pepeni” in the Castle
Demonized Liman
Whisky-eyed cobra
That spat kola in the Castle
The Ahwoises
The PV Obengs
The Totobi Kwakyes
Pushed the hand of JJ
To shot and kill
So JJ shot and killed
They shot and killed all
Shot Kutu in the head
Kotei in the ear
Feli in the nose
Utuka in the eye
Afrifa in both knees
Boakye in the mouth
Akuffo in the genitalia
Amedume in the stomach
The Ahwoises
The PV Obengs
The Totobi Kwakyes
The Legon Socialists
Owners of threadbare shirts
Owners of fading trousers
In suicidal “tie-and-dyes”
Nomadic academicians
Mercenary academicians
Intellectual rapists
Of school-girls
Of peanut sellers
Of banku sellers
The Ahwoises
The PV Obengs
The Totobi Kwakyes
Perverted Socialists
Lost in the wilderness
Of elitist laziness
Of elitist opportunism
They called it all
They called their lethargy
They called it Socialism
They danced with death
Into the hands of death
Dealt by JJ Rawlings
The Ahwoises
The PV Obengs
The Totobi Kwakyes
Are now filthy rich
Very rich
Kingmakers
The Tsikatas
The Botchways
The Afari Djans
The Millses
Obed Asamoahs
Kofi Awonoors
Rojo Mettle-Nunoos
The we have the non-Socialist
Who Socialized with wealth
The E. T. Mensahs
Dan Agbodakpis
Our silence
Our cowardice
Have nurtured
Have flowered
Have given bouquets
To the Socialist thieves
Legon Socialist vultures
That patented our poverty
That preys on the dead
Like the vulture & a carcass
*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
