The Loss of Honest Dr. Liman: Rawlings & Vampire Socialists

(1 of 2 Parts)

*By Akadu Ntiriwa. Mensema, Ph. D.

“GNA- The … PNC has called for the celebration of Dr. Hilla Liman, President of the third Republic of Ghana, as a national hero. ‘Jan 23, 2010 marked the 12th anniversary of the death of Dr. Liman, and… the day is easily swept aside and forgotten about without regard for his contribution towards nation building saddens many’" (Ghanaweb January 24, 2010).

I. DEMONIZING LIMAN

To the end Dr. Liman was a man of honor

Even as he pushed his tired car

Assisted by kind motorists to jump-start it

His aging, battered car

Not the 16 posh cars that JJ took with him

Not as JJ rides in citadels of 4 x 4 bullet-proof cars

And conned, sweating Ghanaians chase after him

After his perfumed political stench

Cheering JJ in worn-out Charlie-wotes

Dr. Hilla Liman

Had been framed

Demonized

By Legon vampire Socialists

In the appalling, tragic pay of Rawlings

Liman framed, ghettoized

As a kola-spitting red-eyed cobra

Apio-guzzling watershed

Sweat-drowned Northerner

With perpetual hangover

Whiskey “na ma fefe” mythology

Liman

Later mocked by Akans as a “Ta ni”

Hated by Ewes for eclipsing deified Rawlings

Derided by Gas for spitting in their Osu Castle

Taunted by Northerners for being a Northerner

Dismissed by all for being Liman

A bumbling heroic newcomer

Of a simple man

Unassuming

Urbane

Honest

Not a predator like JJ

To the end Liman was a man of honor

Liman

The most honest of our leaders

The most educated of our leaders

Didn’t steal from us

Didn’t show the stolen wealth of Ridge

And so with our CARGO-CULT mentality

We Ghanaians hunted him down

With flowers of ridicule in the hands of JJ

With the avid support of vampire Socialist

Mrs. Fulera Liman

Didn’t tin-can herself in Nsawam Cannery

Became the subject of Fula-dietary jokes

Fula Fula Fooola la la Fula

Fulera Foola Fooola Liman

Choired by innocent school kids

In the garb of their parents’ prejudices

As we watched the sun

So we did watch Liman

And so Liman came to pass

Not to set in the west but in the north

II. JJ & VAMPIRES SOCIALISTS

Liman

Danced into the hands of death

Dealt by JJ Rawlings

After Kutu was shot in the head

Akuffo in the genitalia

Afrifa in the knees

Kotei in the ears

And buried like Paga crocodiles

In unmarked graves of our cowardice

Of our silence

Of our greed and thievery

Liman

Dealt by the hands of death

Of JJ Rawlings

And his minions of Legon Socialists

Vampire intellectuals

Who gave legitimacy to the hands of death

To put Liman on a drifting leach

Long rope of mockery

Legon Socialists

Who wore threadbare shirts

Faded in fading pairs of trousers

In suicidal “tie-and-dyes”

Nomadic academicians, mercenaries

Lost in the wilderness of laziness

Called their elitist lethargy Socialism

Socialists plucked and used by Rawlings

Are now filthy rich

Very rich

Kingmakers

The Tsikatas, Ahwois

Botchways

Afari Djans

The Millses

Obed Asamoahs

Rojo Mettle-Nunoos

Those who never read Socialism

But also saw socialism as a gift of thievery

The E. T. Mensahs

Dan Agbodakpis

And of the Kofi Awonoors

Trokosi-kingpins of Ghana’s De-Evolution

Cocked to marginalize Akans

The Legon Socialists

Intellectuals with limited optics

Mercenaries exploited by Warlord JJ

Socialists socialized by Sociopath JJ

Our philosopher of one thief one toilet

Who has amassed10,000 toilets

And wears the debris of excrement with pride

Killed Kutu like a pest

Killed Akufo like a pest

Demonized

Sent off Liman like a pest

But Rawlings is now living in pestilence

III. RAWLINGS’ KENKEY SOCIALISM

JJ Voyaged several times to Legon

To Chokor, the Nkrumah Circle

Wielding kenkey as his anti-Liman missile

Frothing on his demagoguery

That Liman had increased the price of kenkey

Coward Ghanaians

Came to believe the hand of death

Coward Ghanaians

Fed on lies about Liman

Lies of cola-spitting

Of drinking like a dry savannah grass

JJ toured all over the place

Legon campus, his Old Ridge

Weaponizing plantain, kenkey, bread

Powdering himself with konkonte

Missiled against the Liman regime

For bringing hardships to Ghanaians

All weapons of deceit

To slaughter Liman

IV. LIMAN: ETERNAL CELEBRATION

Ghanaians celebrate thieves

We deify thieves and crooks

Those who preach one thief one toilet

But have amassed 10,000 toilets

Whose stench we celebrate

Reeking bouquet we hold with pride

We pay eternal respect to thieves

Liman was not one of us

Liman was not a thief, a crook

PNC allow Liman to remain a non-Ghanaian

Let him rest in eternal honor

History is his eminent resting place

*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