*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema Ph. D.; Post-Grad. Dipl.
“‘ We did not criticize the NPP administration for the fun of it or because
we hated the administration … give me the Kufuor administration and give me
the Mills administration and I will select the Mills administration. Look at
the gap, look at the difference between the two administrations – I am not
shy, I am not ashamed of saying that I prefer the Mills administration any
day, to the Kufuor administration’”
Kwesi Pratt Jnr. (Ghanaweb Dec 14, 2009).
Kwesi osee yee osee yee ratty Pratt
The perennial political rat of our time
The aging political nomad of our time
The socialist opportunist in waiting
The seasoned master of grandiose
But vacuous noisy anti-NPP protests
Enmeshed in ruinous political trajectory
Who was left behind by other socialists
Deserted by other thievery socialist rats
Like the Ahwois, Tiskatas, PV Obengs
Socialists who have never worked
For their wealth but have stolen it
Pratt deserted by the thievery socialist rats
In the political wilderness of poverty
While they amassed stolen wealth
Amidst condoning the use of violence
None of the socialists spoke ever did
Against the killing of the judges
Against the feminization of violence
Not even Simpa Panyin Mills at the time
Socialist opportunist thieves and killers
Intellectuals who use their education
As tools of predatory thievery politics
Who used to wear threadbare shirts at Legon
Who wore tattered old shoes at Legon
Today are filthy rich king-makers
And coward Ghanaians love them
But at least Rawlings identified them
He called them “bastards” and “thieves”
Kwesi osee yee osee yee ratty Pratt
He sang like a caged socialist bird
Ratty Pratt sang and danced
At his own political theater
Bearing his big bulging buck teeth
At juicy NPP developments
Is now praising confused Mills
While Ghanaians are suffering
Pratt will no longer protest
He will not sing like a caged bird
Having been sent to South Africa
To rub his buck-teeth on soccer balls
By the sectionalist Ewe-led Mills
Pratt is now praising Mills/NDC
Kwesi osee yee osee yee ratty Pratt
In the streets and gutters of Ghana
Pratt called the NPP into question
Pratt protested the NPP’s petrol pricing
Although Mills promised to reduce petrol price
Mills overnight increased petrol prices
Pratt will not take to the streets to shout
Pratt is praising Mills for seizing toilets
Pratt is praising NDC for brutalizing journalists
Pratt likes Mills’ Ewerized government
Pratt is praising the NDC for its violence
Pratt is praising Simpa Mills for allowing
Rawlings to call his ministers bastards
Pratt’s visionary injunctions deserted him
Kwesi osee yee osee yee ratty Pratt
The perennial protester has found a home
He has come out of the socialist cage
At last he has found his second calling
Among the socialist thieves & murderers
Who have raped Ghana since 1979
The educated elites that should know better
Have become watersheds of reckless shame
That weave our traumatic sordid histories
Delirious thievery foes are now our saviors
Kwesi Pratt’s eternal seductive narrative
Is all about wanton opportunism in waiting
That snake-like intersects our political greed
Pratt’s buck-teething mouthful is full
Of evocative appreciation of the virus
Of the virus of our time: political opportunism
**Akadu N. Mensema 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. She writes what critics have called “populist
hyperbolic, satirical” poetry.
She can be reached at akadumensema@yahoo.com
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