JJ Rawlings: The Holier than Thou Conman

*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.

“Former President Jerry John Rawlings has described himself as “an eternal servant of the people of Ghana” (Ghanaweb October 13, 2013).

“Former President Jerry Rawlings has chastised President John Mahama’s inability to keep ‘the bad ones’ and ‘crookish monsters’ away from the Presidency” (Ghanaweb October 13, 2013).

“Some politicians and commentators are challenging former President Jerry John Rawlings to name persons he believes, are crooks within the Mahama-administration” (Ghanaweb October 14, 2013).

JJ is still preaching

Inferiorizing all

Demonizing all

Slurring all

Liman was demonized

Arkaah was bludgeoned

Kufour was ATTA-AYI-ED

Atta Mills was taunted to his death

JJ the wisest conman in Ghana

Today JJ is hunting down Akomfem

Akomfem Mahama that lives in SADA forest

JJ is still pontificating

The creator of political hooliganism

The creator of thievery billionaires

The postcolonial generation

Of thieves

Of bandits

Of vultures

Of mosquitoes

Of vampires

The Ahwois

The Tsikatas

The ET Mensahs

The Obed Asamoahs

The Afari Gyans

The Asiedu Nketiahs

The bloody Socialist leaches

The predatory pen-armed robbers

Socialist vultures of our time

The killers of the dream

JJ the murderer of hope

Shallow priest of probity

Reprises his holier than thou-isms

Preyed like the vulture

Preaching with the vulture’s beak

Poaching with the vulture’s claws

Soaring on, circling on

Right on the arc of superiority

JJ, the fake revolutionary

Outspoken delusionary

Sanctimonious exclusionary

With fire on his hind

With fire on his mind

The conman of Ridge

The arsonists of Ridge

JJ, the conman, is unraveling

Mummified in vulture-ing

The vulture of our time

JJ’s history is like a virus

Of pathology of sadistic lies

Of immodesty as moderation

JJ brought war

Shortage of petrol

Shortage of kerosene

Shortage of food

Our stomachs churned

Our minds lost peace

Ah! The Rawlings’ Chain

Chain of acidic hunger

Chain of abject poverty

Chain of utter destitution

JJ brought ethnic wars

Chieftaincy disputes

Asantes and Bonos

Konkombas and Nanumbas

Akuapem – Guans and Akans

JJ is lying

Showy self-righteousness

Like a peacock in mud

Walking contradictions

The lying encyclopedia

With a preface of deception

With conclusions of duplicity

JJ’s braided mouth

His dead mind

Damaged psyche

Lies of a megalomaniac

JJ Rawlings

Our seasoned executioner

Our seasoned arsonist

Cries

Howls

Barks

Yells

Shouts, shrieks, scream

Foams at the mouth

Mouthing foamy holier than thou-isms

*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. All 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.