First Come First Served: AFRC/P-NDC & the Corruption Midstream

*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.

“The Committee for Joint Action (CJA) has called on government to immediately prosecute all public officials cited for embezzling about GH¢166.1 million in the 2008 Auditor General’s report” (Ghanaweb March 11, 2010).

“Justice Kpegah believes the seeming inaction of the A-G in the face of abundant evidence of corruption and graft against former government officials had baffled many supporters of the ruling National Democratic Congress who were now disillusioned” (MyJoyOnline March 11, 2010).

The CJAs and Kpegahs

Justice for all Ghanaians

Let us begin with the AFRC/P-NDC

Anchored in lush Indemnity midstream

Upstream corruption

SMC I & SMC II

Punished by who born firing squad

Midstream corruption

AFRC/P-NDC

Flooding with sanctimoniousness pride

Downstream corruption

NPP

Waiting for the drying up of midstream

All Ghanaians

Kutu & Akuffo

Kotei & Felli

Utuka, Afrifa & Boakye

The slaughtered judges

All Ghanaians yearn

Yearn for JJ’s voice

Probity, accountability

His din of 30 years

Anti-corruption anthems

Of transparency clothed in justice

Of jailing the thievery elite

Of jailing the killers of the dream

Let us dry up the river of corruption

Flooding our nation

Flooding our way of life

Floating aimlessly

Canoes of a lost generation

Adrift

Reckless wrecking course

Of graft, thievery

Of our penchant for mediocrity

Of democratization of corruption

Adrift in deltaic abyss of thievery

Drying up of rivers begins at source

Watershed of generational corruption

The watershed of thievery elitism

The watershed of generational corruption

Was once in the upstream

Upstream of SMC I & SMC II

Of who born firing squad

Anchored in the midstream is AFRC

JJ’s soiled political fingerprints

Of AFRC/P-NDC

Of NDC I & NDC II

Downstream is the NPP

Raging for a season of aridity

The watershed of thievery

Anchored in midstream

Drained by the AFRC/P-NDC

Flooded NDC I & NDC II

The surviving thievery elites

Padded by the Socialists

Chameleons of political greed

Their politics in the dry season

Their greed in the raining season

Our calendar of hopelessness

Initiated

By the accountability prophet

JJ Rawlings

The hero of 50, 000 cedi notes

The hero of divestiture

The hero of Nsawam Cannery

The hero of $200, 000 Cotton-Rice

The hero of who born dogs

The hero of who born fire

Of corruption

Of arrogant thievery

Of abduction and murder

Of moral decay

Of shit-bombing

Of violence

Of constitutional provisions

Meandering in midstream

Meandering woes

Stagnant in the midstream of Indemnity

Of Constitutional Provisions

Valley of protection for Socialist thieves

Socialist thieves

Anchored in the midstream

Swimming against the tide

The tide and time of justice

Choreographing deceit

Still shouting accountability

Kpegah, CDS

Let us begin with the AFRC/P-NDC

*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