Mahama & NDC: You must not Fight against Truth

*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, PhD

**Submitted on December 17, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7FDPOgdF1A

***Check the webpage above regarding foreigners smuggled into Ghana to vote for the

NDC

“President John Mahama has made a passionate appeal to Ghanaians to put behind them

the elections and forge ahead to build a united country. The outcome of the

elections remains a subject of dispute as the New Patriotic Party is heading to

court to challenge the results. But addressing hundreds of members of the Women

Aglow Ministry at a special service for successful elections, President Mahama said

the support of Ghanaians was crucial to moving the country forward” (Ghanaweb,

December 15, 2012)

If we wish to develop

Our subtext must be real truth

Not cartoonish toxic truth

That laughs at truth

That bullies truth

That slanders truth

That badgers truth

If we wish to develop

To reemerge from the mist

Of being bamboozled

Of being benighted

Of being battered

Of being buffeted

Of being bullied

Of being banged

We must cure our allergies

Debilitating allergies of deceit

Our captivating eloquence of lies

Of false provenance of peace

Straddling regalia of fraudulence

Like Korle Lagoon

At the center of the serene calm

President Mahama

National elections

Are not pito/apio contest

We don’t spit in the sand

For the fulfillment of fun

And move on

Are not fufu/akple contest

We don’t slap our stomachs

For the fulfillment of satisfaction

And move on

We can’t move on

Like clouds after the storm

Ah! The savage indignation of rigging

Of silencing the voices of voters

Of false heroic narratives truth and peace

President Mahama

First Tell your Noise-Makers

The NDC’s Communications Team

That silence is a form speech

Your one million messengers

Paid 6000 dollars per month

Your discordant messengers

Tell your sharp teeth- ministers

Tell the Mosquito that never gets fat

Tell Tony Aidoo, the new NDC car thief

He who prefers crappy scrap

Tell the politicized police

Tell the EWE-run BNI

Tell them not to stoke fires

Tell them not to provoke the NPP

With political baiting

And sir tell yourself

Not to meddle in NPP affairs

Leave Alan Kyeremateng for now

Promoting him is divisive, not nationalistic

Promoting him rubs Nana the wrong way

Let us shun bogus peace

Forced peace

False peace preached by agents

Let peace arrest our passivity

Of “Enye hwee”

Of “Fama Nyame”

Of “Saa na wote”

Of “Make you no mind am”

Peace in pieces

Stolen verdicts

Allow the NPP to go to court

To prove their case

Then we can put all behind us

President Mahama

Unclench your fist

Set free the doves of truth

We prefer a piece clear glass

To your piece of obfuscated peace

Great leaders, citizens

Don’t run away from truth

Like 37 bats running away from daybreak

Like Mills jogging on his sick bed

Running against truth

President Mahama

Don’t run against truth

Run on behalf of truth

Great leaders, citizens

Seize moments of truth

Cease moments of untruth

They run for truth

They run on behalf of truth

They stand behind truth

*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 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.