Atuguba Can’t Hide His Pro-NDCism & Anti-NPPism (2)

*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, PhD

WILLIAM ATUGUBA: Counsel, what is your name

TSATSU TSIKATA: My Lord, I am Tsatsu Tsikata

ATUGUBA: Sustained, and what are you

TSATSU: Ex-convict before the court, my Lord

ATUGUBA: Sustained, why are you an ex-convict

TSATSU: My lord, I stole and misapplied state money

ATUGUBA: Sustained, and how long were you in prison

TSATSU: My Lord, I can’t recall that

ATUGUBA: Sustained, were you freed

TSATSU: Yes, at two levels

ATUGUBA: Sustained, what two levels

TSATSU: My Lord, I faked illness and lived at Korle Bu

ATUGUBA: Sustained, what is the other level

TSATSU: My Lord, Kufour gave me amnesty

ATUGUBA: Sustained, did you accept it

TSASTSU: My Lord I did not

ATUGUBA: Sustained, so why did you reject it

TSATSU: My Lord, I wanted to use the courts to free myself

ATUGUBA: Sustained, so did you use the courts

TSASTSU: My Lord, I have done so yet

ATUGUBA: Sustained, so you are still an ex-convict

TSATSU: My Lord, that is what everyone thinks

ATUGUBA: Sustained I think so too

TSASTSU: I think so too, My Lord

ATUGUBA: What is your line of interrogation

TSATSU: My Lord, the sheets

ATUGUBA: You mean the NPP’s evidence

TSATSU: Yes, my Lord

ATUGUBA: What is the color of the sheets

TSATSU: Blue, my Lord

ATUGUBA: Sustained, I think it is pink in color

TSIKATA: My Lord, it is blue in color

ATUGUBA: Sustained, yes it is pink, blue, etc.

TSIKATA: Pink, my Lord

ATUGUBA: Sustained, whether blue or pink

TSIKATA: Yes, my Lord we can even say it has no color

ATUGUBA: Sustained, how many have you examined

TSIKATA: My Lord none, in fact, none

ATUGUBA: Sustained, how do you plan to interrogate Dr. Bamuwia

TSIKATA: My Lord, just ask and repeat one question

ATUGUBA: Sustained, and what is the question

TSIKATA: What are the pink sheets, my Lord

ATUGUBA: Sustained, but you said the pink sheets are blue

TSIKATA: Yes, they are pink, blue, red and all, my Lord

ATUGUBA: Sustained, you are our NDC’s luminary lawyer

TSIKATA: My Lord, I have done many things for Ghana as a lawyer

ATUGUBA: Sustained, what else have you done

TSIKATA: My Lord, the bogus trial & killing of Acheampong & co

ATUGUBA: Sustained, what else

TSIKATA: The AFRC/PNDC kangaroo courts, my Lord

ATUGUBA: Sustained, what else

TSIKATA: My lord, the AFRC/PNDC seizure of Akans’ businesses

ATUGUBA: Sustained, and what else

TSIKATA: Indemnity clause in the Constitution, my Lord

ATUGUBA: Sustained, have you won any court case

TSIKATA: No, my Lord

ATUGUBA: Sustained, have you published any scholarly essay on law

TSIKATA: No, my Lord, you will help me to write on this one

ATUGUBA: Sustained, you are the great NDC legal luminary

TSIKATA: Yes, my Lord

ATUGUBA: Sustained

*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.