Konadu Rawlings Who Born Hypocrisy: Call for Your Own Head

*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.

“Former first lady and a Vice Chair of the ruling NDC, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings has called on the Atta Mills led administration to act fast in prosecuting members of the past NPP administration who she says have committed various acts of financial malfeasance” (Peace FM On-line March 3, 2010).

Yaa Konadu

Self-righteous, conceited, sanctimonious

And holier than thou JJ Rawlings

The watershed of post-1979 thievery elite

Scream for the ending of the Indemnity Clause

That has canopied JJ Rawlings

Always blaring holier than thou din

Cacophonic noises of anti-corruption

Noises even as you burn your thievery wealth

JJ is quiet for now

Bitten by who born dogs

Consumed by who born fire

So Yaa Konadu is out fanning old fires

Tinkering with their firewall of hypocrisy

Yaa Konadu

You may think Ghanaians are foolish

Yes we are

Else how do we listen

Perennially listen to your self-serving

Cacophonic hypocrisy

Blaming all others

Masquerading as the angel of fire

That consumes corruption, graft, thievery

Yet majestically, ironically personify all

Corruption, graft, thievery

Yes Ghanaians

Cocooned in a democracy of amnesia

Have privileged your two-facedness

Yaa Konadu

The first to import a Jacuzzi

A huge $46, 000 Jacuzzi in the 1990s

That could have built a clinic

A multi-purpose Jacuzzi

You insisted for your BACKACHE

While 1000s of women die in childbirth

Yaa Konadu

You conned and canned us

In cornering Nsawam Cannery

You are a free thief

Calling others thieves

Clamoring for their heads

Shouting morality from the rooftop

You educated your children overseas

Your honorable friends bore the cost

Your anonymous honorable friends

Name them on the honor role

Of the transparency mantra of JJ Rawlings

You ride in posh bullet-proof cars

Change cars like your headgear

Your honorable friends bore the cost

Name them on the honor role

Of the transparency mantra of JJ Rawlings

Keys to the Fiat Campagnola

The vessel for abducting the slain judges

Were picked from your secured, enriched

24-hour-guarded dining table

Yet you are walking free

Calling for the trophy-heads of others

Yaa Konadu

Ask JJ Rawlings who born dog

To account for our 50-cedi notes

To account for Tarkwa gold bars

To account for the abductions, murders

To account for selling state corporations

Yaa Konadu

Ask JJ’s rabid dogs

To go to prison

Dogs with rags to riches biographies

Like JJ Rawlings’ rags-to-riches

JJ’s dogs

The Tsikatas of MERCENARY INTELLECTUALS

The Ahwois of SOCIALIST CASH-PRO THIEVES

Botchway of SELLING ELITE CONSCIENCE

Obed Asamoah of the NDC BED BANK

E. T. Mensah of E.(ternal) T.(hief)

Agbodakpi of PDC/WDC WEALTH

Awonoor of ANTI-AKAN REVOLUTIONARY

PV Obeng of PAY VOUCHER FOR GIRLS

Thieves of our time

Killers of the dream

Walking in the arms of freedom

Yaa Konadu

Ghanaians know you now

Like the backs of their calloused hands

The hypocrite, power drunk

With a burdening headgear

On a conceited head

The wife of who born dogs

Whose dogs don’t die in fire

The wife of who born fire

Who dresses for Fire-ing-Valentine

Save your phony din of anti-corruption

Scream for the ending of the Indemnity Clause

That has canopied JJ Rawlings

Safeguarded your delusions of grandeur

Buttressed your noisy holier than thou mantra

*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