Mahama’s Ghana is in first gear & first gear

*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.

“President John Mahama says his critics should be patient with his government because the bus of his administration is currently travelling in its ‘first gear.’ President Mahama told a gathering at Awutu Senya in the Central Region on Friday that he will soon change to 2nd, 3rd and 4th gear to accelerate developments in the country” (Ghanaweb, October 25, 2013)

BOY: Eh! Massa

MASSA: Boy, how now

BOY: I dey for first gear Massa

MASSA: Ha ha haa Boy we all dey first gear

BOY: Massa na true oh na true first gear we dey

MASSA: Yes, Mahama take us for reckless ride

BOY: Mahama dey reverse Ghana in first gear, gear

MASSA: First gear for everywhere, anytime, anything

Our akomfem is in first gear flight

Our akomfem in first gear spiral

Falling

Tumbling

Plummeting

Dropping

On his own sword of incompetence

Mahama has remained in first gear

Reversing Ghana in first gear

Mahama is unraveling

Unfolding like a cheap suitcase

Breaking apart like akomfem excreta

Unshackling failure

Tyrannizing orthodoxy of failure

Our akomfem is chirping

Chirping

Quacking

Barking

Empty platitudes

Stuck in first gear

The sedentary conscience of an akomfem

Trapped

Stalled

Halted

Dithered

Hedged

Ensnared

Wedged

Frozen in the savannah landscape

Northernalizing government

Impoverishing society

BOY: Everywhere, MASSA, we dey first gear

MASSA: Yes oh! Flat road

BOY: First gear

MASSA: Yes oh! Pothole road

BOY: First gear

MASSA: Yes oh! Hilly road

BOY: First gear

MASSA: Yes oh! Mountain road

BOY: First gear

MASSA: Yes oh! Steep road

BOY: First gear

BOY: My turn MASSA

MASSA: Go first gear

BOY: Mahama akomfem in flight

MASSA: First gear

BOY: Mahama SADA tree planting

MASSA: First gear

BOY: Mahama wooing Woyome

MASSA: First gear

BOY: Mahama Turkey gold

MASSA: First gear

BOY: Mahama medical scholarship in Cuba

MASSA: First gear

BOY: Mahama election fraud

MASSA: First gear

BOY: Mahama GYEEDA

MASSA: First gear

BOY: Mahama Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA)

MASSA: First gear

BOY: Mahama Dumso

MASSA: First gear

BOY: Mahama Subah Infosolutions Limited

MASSA: First gear

Our akomfem in first gear flight

Our akomfem in first gear spiral

Falling

Tumbling

Plummeting

Dropping

On his own sword of incompetence

Mahama has remained in first gear

Reversing Ghana in gear speed

Mahama is unraveling

Unfolding like a cheap suitcase

Breaking apart like akomfem excreta

Unshackling failure

*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.