*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.
“The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu
Nketia has stated that the ruling party is currently facing financial difficulties
(Ghanaweb May 14, 2010)
General Mosquito
Sucker of national blood
The chief of bloodsuckers
Synonymous with our elites
Our thievery political elites
Our time-honored elitist thieves
Long-standing thievery elites
Whines again in our ears
Slurring in our ears
NDC is broke today
NDC was broke before the elections
But NDC had millions of dollars
To malign their opponents
To give out chamber-pots
Mats, cutlasses, lamps, bicycles
A fleet of campaign cars
Thievery elites
Elites without conscience
Elites without moral rectitude
Elitist thieves that are celebrated
Celebrated by the impoverished
By the deprived
By the poor
By university female students
Paradox of cracked psyches
Of cowards who hail thieves
Listen to the hollow man
The Mosquito of old
Who has never been fattened
From draining our blood
The hypocrite
He who has hollow cheeks
That never fills up
Dusting our eyes
That NDC is broke
Even as the NDCers seize toilets
As the NDCers mine from toilets
As the NDCers takes over toll-booths
As the NDCers steal cars
As ministers put up houses
Even as Rawlings burns houses
To get a new state-house
State-furnished in millions of dollars
General Mosquito
Sucker of national blood
The bloodsuckers
Synonymous with our elites
The thin hollow man
The ungrateful man
He who can’t grow fat
Fattened by the state
Fattened on the state
Unlike JJ has no big belly
Big belly to show for thievery
Ghoulish in stride
Ghoulish in stealing
The thin strident mosquito
With hollow cheeks
Deceptive cheeks
General Mosquito
Sucker of national blood
The bloodsuckers
Synonymous with our elites
NDC is broke
But NDC people are rich
Looking into the horizon
Smiling and chattering
Tractor agents
Car agents
Passport agents
Housing agents
Driver’s license agents
Chiefs who went broke
Lost their gait
Lost their chiefly dignity
Like an Akuapem chieftain
Like the Ada chieftain
Like the Dagarti Chieftain
Like the Anloga chieftain
Now have chests of wealthy hairs
Assorted hairs plucked from the Castle
Rawlings is burning government’s house
His cats and dogs are safe
His expensive suits are safe
None of them got burnt
The NDC is footing his bills
The new house for chief fireman
He who knows how to set fire
He who knows how to burn
The hypocritical Mosquito
The bloodsuckers
Deceptively thin
Bloodsucker
Of elitist thieves
Town-crier with hollow cheeks
Liar with hoarse voice
Crying that NDC is broke
Elitist thieves
Killers of the dream
Crying broke
While amassing wealth
*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
