Attorney General Sleeps in Woyome’s Looting Bed

*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, PhD

The Minister of Justice and Attorney General may continue to sleep in Woyome’s looting bed, but should not take all Ghanaians for fools. Since the Woyome case began, the AG’s Office has always had stupid excuses one after the other: state attorneys are sick; they have traveled overseas; they are on trek; they need more time to study the case, their cars broke down; they were caught in traffic; they arrive in court late; they left their brief-cases that have the case in their offices; they need interpreters; they have diarrhea; they are out to lunch, etc. Then again, we don’t have to blame the Attorney General’s Office. After all, the Minister of Justice and Attorney General (AG), Marrietta Brew Appiah-Oppong, is preying on Ghanaians’ short memory. She well knows that very soon Ghanaians will forget about Woyome’s cruel crime. Are we surprised that some chieftains came out from their impoverished backwater enclaves to speak to the greatness of Woyome. Sadly the NDC is all over the place looking for loans to create and loot from some fictional projects such as planting trees in the dry season savanna region and rearing akomfem without any fencing.

“Minister of Justice and Attorney General (AG) Marrietta Brew Appiah-Oppong has downplayed suggestions that the State is having a tough time prosecuting Alfred Agbesi Woyome, the man at the center of the 51 million judgment debt saga. The State Monday failed to respond to the businessman’s claim of no case at the Financial Division of the Fast Track High Court in Accra” (Ghanaweb, March 21, 2014).

Any day AG is ready for plantain thieves

With her swift and instant justice

The plantain thief is jailed

The mother who stole two fingers

Of dry plantain

To feed her four hungry kids

The mother is in jail

Ten years with hard labor

Monday AG is not ready for Woyome

No court

Tuesday AG is not ready for Woyome

No court

Wednesday AG is not ready for Woyome

No court

Thursday AG is not ready for Woyome

No court

Friday AG is not ready for Woyome

No court

Hmm! Saturday AG is READY for Woyome

AG & Woyome lunch & drink together

Hmm! Sunday is AG READY for Woyome

They go to Church and PREY together

Yes, they prey on praying Ghanaians

Woyome is still free

For stealing $51 Million

Regaled

Respected

Resplendent

Revered by his kinsfolk

The cruel thief

Rides in motorcades

Serenaded by the police

Resplendently attends state functions

Regaled by benighted Ghanaian masses

Ghanaians sick from their short memories

And AG has tapped into our short memories

For slow justice

For sluggish justice

For the pen-armed WOYOMES

Plantain thief is jailed

The mother who stole two fingers

Of dry plantains

To feed her four hungry kids

The mother is in jail

Ten years with hard labor

Slow justice for Woyome’s theft of $51 million

Hmm! Swift justice for the plantain thief

*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.