*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.
“Accra, July 7, GNA –[ he NDC] Government on Tuesday asked the management of Joy
FM, a private radio station in Accra to substantiate its claims that the Ghana
Real Estate Developer's Association (GREDA) withdrew its petition against the
STX Housing Project from Parliament because of death threats received by
executives of the Association (Ghanaweb July 7, 2010).
Simpa Panyin Mills
Confused like a snail on Tema Motorway
Rudderless drifting NDC on Korle Lagoon
Vultures of yesterday’s JJ’s dictatorship
Parading as today’s peacocks of democracy
Parrots of anti-foreign-built Jubilee House
Preening Vultures of STX’s housing carcass
Korean-ed STX Housing Project
Appraised by thievery parliamentarians
By slow Mills on Rawlings’ radar
By GREDA another elitist thieves
STX is a fool’s gold
In our paradise lost of resources
Official 10 percent bribe/corruption
10 percent to buy private cars, houses
Parade their cars on pot-holed streets
Put up mansions in unplanned areas
Our collective future is a fool’s gold
In the hands of foreigners
Our $10 billion housing project
Slated for elitist thieves
As pupils go to school under trees
As students use broken-bottle beakers
As doctors use flashlight for surgery
As our old infrastructure crumbles
As our police lack patrol vehicles
Simpa Payin Mills
Of ADZE BONE ABA FIE’s fame
Like a confused snail on Tema Motorway
Knows nothing about STX
So Peace FM should tell us
STX the biggest NDC’s joke
Atta Mills’ worst pungent sore
Of stigmas birthed in Swedru
NDC government
NDC foot-soldiers
NDC car-soldiers
NDC tractor-soldiers
JJ Rawlings’ NDC
Now housed Sogakope palace
Yaa Konadu’s NDC
Now housed in her Mum’s home
NDC
Joy FM has no explanation
Joy FM has no substantiation
NDC has explanations to make
NDC has substantiations to do
NDC tell us about STX
Tell us about selling our birthright
Tell us about the bidding for the project
Tell us about land-use for the project
Tell us about the 10% bribes
Tell us about how you plan to pay STX
Tell us about how STX will bring Korean workers
Tell us about how STX houses will go to the elites
Tell us about selling our resources for pittance
Tell us about Indians and the Jubilee House
Tell us about your criticism of the Indian contractors
Tell us about why you like this Korean-based project
Tell us about relegating local contractors
Tell us about all these
Tell it all to Joy FM
So that Joy FM will substantiate
NDC government
NDC foot-soldiers
NDC car-soldiers
Tell us all
Substantiate it all
Koreans will put 200,000 homes
On whose land
Ghana will provide infrastructure
So how will we do it
We lack water, energy, roads, etc.
Koreans will not use local materials
So whose material will they use
Duty-free & tax-free Korean materials
Koreans will not use local expertise
So Korean experts will come
Ghanaians will remain unemployed
Tell us about capital flight
So Koreans will repatriate their profits
Ghanaians will foot all future costs
Tell us about paying the Koreans
How you will pay $ 10 billion loan
Sell our future
Our oil under the sea
Gold, diamond, bauxite
Fish in our waters
NDC government
NDC foot-soldiers
NDC car-soldiers
NDC-tractor soldiers
Leave Joy FM alone
Joy FM has no explanation
NDC tell us about STX
**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
