Mahama Unhappily Rapes Mills’ Salary-Child

Mahama Unhappily Rapes Mills’ Bastard Salary-Child

*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, PhD

“President Mahama is reported to be unhappy with the salary increment of the

President, the deputy, Ministers of state and other officials of the executive.

Before Parliament went on recess, they approved the increment of salaries of the

President, his deputy and some members of the Executive arm of governance. The

President will now be paid 12,000 Ghana Cedis monthly while his vice takes home

10,500 Ghana Cedis. Ministers and their deputies will also receive salaries ranging

from 8,000 and 9,000 Ghana Cedis.” (Ghanaweb, November 3, 2012)

President John Mahama

Mahama is the man with it all

The NDC’s disease

Patented by JJ Rawlings

Holier than thou theatrics

With decorated obfuscation

Like a peacock in the dark

Mahama’s glow is a pale shadow

Like a vulture on church spire

Mahama is a bird of prey praying

He is a pen-armed robber

Who hates his own signature

His sordid signature

Of graft

Of tribalism

Of nepotism

Of corruption

Mahama steals from us

And says he is unhappy

Unhappy that he is stealing

Mahama rapes Ghanaians

Mahama is unhappy

Yet Ghanaians are happy

Ghanaians are happy victims

As always we are happy victims

We salute those who rape us

We serenade those who rape us

We give rapists state burials

Rapists in the Castle

Rapists in Parliament

Rapists in courtrooms

Rapists in the pulpit

Pen-armed robbers

Their raping-ink

Its density

Its suffocation

Its smothering

Its strangling

It is the death of Ghana

Of pregnant women

Of street kids

Of poor workers

Of benighted farmers

John Mahama

The care-taker President

Custodian of Mills’ grave

Seasoned pen-armed robber

Pedestaled in batakari glow

Wings strutting like a peacock

Like a Savannah peacock

Facing his sunset at dawn

He is the man with it all

With decorated obfuscation

He accepts his new pay

He is unhappy with it

He had free education

He is against free education

President Mahama

The pen-armed robber

With a long pen

Long productive pen

Has nurtured bastards

NDC greedy bastards

Triumphant bastards

Seasoned thieves

Bristling with poise

Brimming with hubris

Of savannah winds

That cuts pathways

In a dust-storm

Of chaos

Of anarchy

Of poverty

Of putrefaction

Pen-armed robbers

Encircled thieves

Trapped in ink of corruption

Pen-armed robbers

Soaked with sordid ink

Of thievery

Of corruption

Of graft

Of tribalism

And Mahama is unhappy

He says he is not happy

MASSA: Eh! Son! Long time oh

SON: Massa, Ah! We meet again

MASSA: How the go dey go for you

SON: I dey like I no dey like Mills

MASSA: MPs and Mahama get new pay

SON: I hear say Mahama no happy

SON: He know the pay long ago

MASSA: Mahama be hypocrite paa

SON: Ah! We Ghanaians be fools oh

MASSA: Na true! Thieves dey rule us

SON: We go give all state burials

MASSA: Yes, for Sekyi-Hughesing us

SON: This Sekyi-Hughesing word big

MASSA: Na that be Woyomization too

*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.