*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.
“Nsawam, Oct 30, GNA - Konadu has inaugurated the Nsawam Cannery valued at one
million dollars. Konadu said the company now has 110 workers and expressed the
hope that in two years it would be increased to 2000 to cut down on the
unemployment rate in the country. She said GHC2.7 billion was used to purchase
the company in November 1995. JJ Rawlings, the special guest of honour, advised
Mills to take bold decisions to manage Ghana successfully because people were
having difficulty paying their children's school fees and electricity bills”
(Abridged from Ghanaweb October 30, 2010).
The Rawlingses are in a circle
Possessed in a full circle
Dancing in a full circle
Coursing a fool’s circle
Twirling their fingers
Of triumphant thievery
In the vultures’ nest
They are cresting
Gliding full circle
On a fool’s thread
Piloting down
Tumbling down
Cascading down
Precipice-ing down
Possessed in a fool’s dance
The vultures are preening
In condescending dance
Preying on docile Ghanaians
Ghanaians bedecked in awe
Coward, docile Ghanaians
We have a tree for vultures
Those who prey on us
Oh! These vultures
These aging liars
JJ & Yaa Konadu
Shameful birds of prey
Stole Nsawam Cannery
So that we would get jobs
Fabricated straw histories
Of JJ’s 19-year predatory rule
Oh! Nepotistic sale of state assets
The hypocrites of our time
Thieves waxing in hypocrisy
JJ, our seasoned vulture
Talks about school fees
Talks about electricity bills
Ah! Talk about fees in your era
Ah! Talk about bills in your era
JJ has never paid school fees
JJ has never paid any bills
JJ the free-loading vulture
JJ is at it again demonizing all
Oh! Malleable Ghanaians
Oh! Our Atta MESS-iah
JJ FIREman is spinning us
Poking his fingers in our eyes
In his full dance of anomy
Today JJ & Konadu have it all
Oh Nsawam for GH2.7 billion
Our Nsawam Cannery
JJ’s gift to Yaa Konadu
Gifted on 1995 Valentine’s Day
Another FIRE in our hearts
Malleable, docile Ghanaians
Led by stomach politicians
Bamboozled journalists
Elites that bask in it all
The filth of the Rawlingses
JJ has patented our memories
Our short-circuited memories
That we forget the past
To be fooled, benighted
To be impoverished
Time and time again
The bastard repackages us
The bastard who call others same
Has held us in archival bondage
To bloodstain our hopes
The self-righteous bastard
He who calls all thieves
He who calls all corrupt
Pedestal-ed on conceit
Nurtured by educated thieves
Nurtured by stomach politicians
Nurtured by tribalists in the Volta
Nurtured by bemused Northerners
Nurtured by injudicious chiefs
The eternal vultures
Obonsam JJ & Konadu
Gliding for more
Garlanded in thievery
They have had it all
Power, wealth, fame
Sycophantic adulation
Of elitist thieves
Of subservient tribalists
Amidst 19 seasons of anomy
Made wholesome by sycophancy
Of delusions of grandeur
Vultures revisiting evil
Odious vultures’ narratives
Written on carcasses of history
*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
