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Thievery Role Models: Ayariga’s Rampaging Tractors Crush Our Youths

Sun, 4 Apr 2010 Source: Mensema, Akadu Ntiriwa

*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.

Koforidua, March 31, GNA - Mr. Mahama Ayariga, Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry

has called on the youth to maintain their confidence in the NDC government and vote

for the party in Election 2012. He said President Evans Atta Mills was working hard

to fulfil his 2008 Election campaign promises by creating more opportunities to meet

the demands of the people.

I. THIEVERY ROLE MODELS

Ghanaians are truly adrift

And complain about youth

Lost in the ocean of decrepitude

Of greasy moral putrefaction

Elitist thieves are our role models

The Maama Ayarigas and all

The Honorable Tractor-Thief

One man; five tractors

Five state-tractor thief

Showered with a big-man post

The lost disoriented youths

Copy-cating the Ayarigas

Our collective morbidity

Stem from dishonorable elites

Armed robbers emulate elites

Copy-cating the Ayarigas

The thievery role models

Generations lost to thievery

Lost in the forest of probity

The youth are on rampage

Emulating educated thieves

Armed robbers wielding pens

Tractor-thief is our role model

Ayariga is rampaging the youth

With his tractor role-modeling

When the youth kill

When the youth seize toilets

When the youth give ultimatums

When the youth close down offices

It is the mirror image of our politics

Of thievery rampaging politics

Of the hopeless educated elite

Morally bankrupt

Selfishness grafted on MONEY

State MONEY

Personal wealth

The youths are only copy cats

II. SOLDIER GO RISE?

Massa Ghana hard oh

Hmm! Ghana no hard

Oh! Ghana hard proper

No Ghana sick well well

Oh! Ghana hard for me

No Ghana make you sick

Eh! Massa you sick too

We all dey sick oh we sick

You no hear the tractor thief

Na which one incestuous one

No Maama Ayariga oh na him

Whetin now he take airdoplane

He say NDC create OPPOPOTWE

Haba na opportunity be that

Well na me de talk like Mills

Hmm Mills mind confuse

Na so so him tongue confuse

But where dey Mills now

You paa why you for ask

The man dey missing oh

NDC youth thugs dey rule

Whetin you want dem do

Maama Ayariga de wait oh

He do wait for OPPOPOTWE

He go take train & airdoplane

Ghana people we fool oh

Hmm chop make I chop

Whetin you get chop

Ayariga farmers dey chop

Ayariga bought tractor

Hmm he say for farmers

But he de charge farmers

And Mills make am minister

Me I no dey understand oh

Book-long people dey fool us

I fear say soldier people go rise

No that one no be good koraa

But politicians dey chop

JJ be soldier but he chop

Soldiers bad bad pass all

JJ be politician DR. DR.

I hear say JJ DR/ DR paper dey

Hmm! DR/DR paper no burn oh

Ha haa he keep am for pocket

Maama Ayariga be role model

Tractor Thief

Ta ta ta ta

We gave up shame

We gave up moral rectitude

Ayariga

Five government-tractor thief

A deputy minister

Alban Bagbin

The incestuous tractor farmer

A minister

Only in Black Africa

We have lost our moral bearing

Democracy

That democratizes thievery & graft

Democratizes thieves as role models

And we complain about youth rampage

*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

Columnist: Mensema, Akadu Ntiriwa