Honourable Street Kids & Thievery Poly-Trickians

*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.; Post-Grad. Dipl.

* *Dedicated to the poor, marginalized, and voiceless Ghanaian

street kids, exploited by thievery politicians.

PROLOGUE: HONEST STREET KIDS

The only honest Ghanaians

The only true Ghanaians

The only hard working Ghanaians

Who have no formal neo/colonized education

Whose education has been stolen anyway

By our contemporary educated-elite thieves

Are street kids who sweat pins of poverty

Whose friends are hunger and deprivation

And who drink their impoverished sweat

Emaciated by penury and suffering

They sell China-made dog chains

For the thievery educated elites’ well-fed dogs

The street kids struggle to sell diapers

But have to compete with the Mubarak thieves

Who are paid by the state to steal from the state

Street children’s beds are public pavements

Educated thieves like Obed Asamoah dey enjoy

He de enjoy posh dollar-filled mattresses

It was the P/NDC’s under-pillow World Bank

But on the average 20 street kids sleep in airless kiosks

E.T. Mensah, the gutter-rich WDC/PDC zealot

He de sleep for 15-bedroom mansion with 15 bathrooms

He disobeyed Rawlings’ one man one toilet philosophy

Even half-baked educated ET can steal from us

And Ghanaians are happy that he did

Kwame Peprah, the most-crafted nose-man in Ghana

Dey say he no take bribe from M & J

Dem all be thieves

Rawlings be thief

Kufour be thief

Mills be thief

Na street kids no be thieves

They no de collect bribes

They no dey steal from the state like ugly Sekyi Hughes

IN MEDIAS RES: EPIC HISTORY OF THIEVERY

Our educated elite be thieves

Headmasters be thieves

School matrons be thieves

Pharmacists be thieves

Accountants be thieves

TUC people be organized thieves

Taxi-drivers be thieves

Journalists be thieves

Vice Chancellors be thieves

Judges be thieves

Business people be thieves

Castle people be thieves

Inspector/Generals be thieves

Immigration officers be thieves

Police be thieves

Dem all be greedy thieves

Our state officials dem be thieves

The chiefs are ritual thieves

Bankers be thieves

Port officials be thieves

Dokita dis or that dem be thieves

Professors without publications dem be thieves

Rev. Prophets of doom dem be thieves

So and so Esquire lawyers dem be thieves

Dem de wear colonial clowning gowns

Even discarded by the imperialists

Dem all be thieves

Even those without Dokita degree

Dey steal and buy Dokita to boost thievery

Remember Dokita Spew Garbage

Dem all be thieves, thieves

Educated thieves dem dey like armed robbers

Except that dem dey use pen to steal and kill

FLASHBACK: P/NDC & NPP ALL BE THIEVES

Dokita Dokita Rawlings

He be thief

Papa Rawlings is a thief

But his friends dey steal for him

Friends dey pay school fees for him

Friends dey buy posh cars for him

Papa Rawlings now has his own mansions

Ask him how much the palaces de cost

He go say alien friends build for him

Papa Kufour is a thief man

Our unemployed Chief, Kufour’ son

Bought the most expensive hotel

Dem all be thief, our chiefs be thieves

Wireko Brobbey is a fattened thief

One-man thief of our 50th Year

Kwame Bartels be thief

Asamoah Boateng be thief

Ayariga, the war monger be five-tractor thief

Bagbin incest anthropologist

He be tractor thief too

Dem all be thieves

Dem all be thieves

Dem de steal from Ghana

Dem de steal from street kids

Dem de steal from poor farmers

Dem all be thieves, thieves

Sekyi Hughes, ugliest Fante man be thief

Dem de think for only their pockets

They no dey care about street kids

Dem dey sell Ghana to M & J, etc.

Dr George Sipah-Yankey (Min. of Health, NDC) £10,000

Ato Quarshie (ex-Min of Roads and Highways, NDC) £55,000

Saddique Bonniface (ex-Min of Works, NPP) £10,000 + £13,970 + £2,500 + £500

Amadu Seidu (Min of State at the Castle, NDC) £10,000

Edward Lord-Attivor (Chairman inter-city transport corp) £10,000

Edward Attipoe - £10,000

Danny Ofori-Atta (EGLE Party) -The lobbyist

Baba Kamara (HC designate to Nigeria)

Konadu be thief of Nsawam Cannery

Obed Asamoah, the mattress-under banker

PV Obeng be thief of young girls’ thighs

Dem al l be thieves

EPILOGUE: OUR PERPETUAL SUFFERING

Thievery is now our most prized norm

It is thief make I thief culture

Championed by hopeless poly-trickians

Dem all be thievery specialists

But Ghana people mostly dey love thieves

But Ghana people mostlydey respect thieves

Ghana people mostly dey admire thieves

Ghana people mostly dey praise thieves

Ghana people mostly dey worship thieves

Educated thieves get the most beautiful women

Look at ugly Asabee and his prized wife

Educated thieves get the most handsome men

Educated thieves get sycophantic adulation

Thieves, thieves dey get the best honor

Thieves, thieves dey get the best hero-worship

Thieves, thieves dey get the best funeral

Thieves be the biggest chiefs

Dem all be thieves

But coward Ghanaians dey love thieves

Ghanaians always dey say enye hwee [No problem]

Ghanaians always dey say fa Nyame [Give it God]

But Ghanaians dey suffer suffer oh Ghanafo

Ghanafo 50, 000 dollars for educated thieves

To buy cars to swim in potholes of their making

The educated thieves dey enjoy thievery

PERORATION: ALL GHANAIANS SPEAK UP

Those who have pens of war on thievery should write

Those who have fists of dissatisfaction should mount them

Put aside partisanship, ethnicity, regionalism, passivity

Let us all be fearless nationalists for the good of Ghana

Let us speak truth to thievery in demo-crazy power

Workers must rise up now to demand probity

Before another reckless revolution occurs

That day our most expensive perfume of Korle Lagoon

Located near our sickly dilapidated Korle Bu Hospital

Will become our bloody watershed hall of shame

*Akadu N. Mensema is a nationalist Denkyira beauty. She is a trained oral historian cum sociologist, and is a Professor in the USA. She writes what critics have called “populist hyperbolic, satirical” poetry. She can be reached at akadumensema@yahoo.com