Sharp Teeth Must “Bite” Woyome for Our Money

*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, PhD

“A Deputy Information Minister, Mr. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa says he will use the

five hundred thousand Ghana cedi damages claim from Kennedy Agyapong to construct

toilets across the country. .The deputy minister has sued the MP for Assin-North,

Kennedy Agyapong, for defamation” (Ghanaweb October 27, 2012).

Ah! Rawlings was apt

NDC’s public teeth

Apt on Sharp Teeth

Teeth that builds toilet

Sharp Teeth must bite Woyome

Open up Woyome for our money

Sharp Teeth

Teeth that make noise

Teeth that dig toilet

Patented sharp teething

Sharp Teeth should bite

Bite Woyome

To get our monies back

To build schools

Not toilets

To build hospitals

Not toilets

To build roads

Not toilets

To build electricity

Not toilets

To build Korle Lagoon

Not toilets

To build Keta Sea Wall

Not toilets

When Mills passed on

Sharp Teeth was silent

Teams B & C were silent

The Mahama they didn’t know

What Mahama would birth

Hmm! Another boy or girl

Mahama has gone the way of Mills

Silent

Dull

In a daze

Marching alongside Team B & C

Mouthing platitudes of peace

Of respect

Of tolerance

Mouthing platitudes

As Teams B & C break glass

Sharp Teeth

NDC’s public teeth

The teeth that all can see

The man with uncut teeth

The man who never worked

Whose only work was lying

Concocting lies

Whose reward was a Mills

Sharp Teeth

The man with uncut teeth

Will build toilet for Ghanaians

The breaker of glass

Sharp Teeth

He is still breaking it all

Glass

Teeth cutting

Grass

In dunce-ing daze

The dance of Teams B & C

The dunce of Teams B & C

Sharp teeth-ing

Sharpened teeth

That build toilet

Ah! Rawlings was apt

Apt on Sharp Teeth

NDC’s public teeth

Teeth that builds toilet

*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.