Toxic-Idiotic Aidoo’s “Scrap-Car” Crap

*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, PhD

“The Director of Communications of the NPP Nana Akomea is amused at the explanation being given by the Head of Policy Monitoring and Evaluation Dr. Tony Aidoo for abusing his office by buying a vehicle that was part of ex-president Kufuor’s convoy at a paltry sum of 6,200 cedis at a government auction. [According to Nana Akomea] “…innocent Tony Aidoo says the car didn’t have gear box, the windscreen was melting, and the air condition wasn’t working. Now, Tony Aidoo, is he a scrap dealer?” [Nana Akomea] questioned, provoking laughter from some of the panel on the show” (Abridged from Ghanaweb November 17, 2012).

Toxic-Idiotic Aidoo

Toxic-Idiotic Aidoo

The demagogue

Demagoguing thievery

Toxic-Idiotic Aidoo

Went for gold

He went for scrap

Peddling scrap

Peddling crap

Thieves

With cocky certainty

Swaggering

Bluffing

Gloating

Foaming at the mouth

Sweltering in designer suits

Soaring like vultures

Thieves who lead

Who negotiate thievery

They are thieves

Killers of the dream

Pen-armed robbers

Robbers pillaging

With poisonous ink

Deadly pens

Lethal pens

Toxic pens

Pens that pillage

Pillaging tractors

Pillaging cars

Pillaging lands

Pillaging state corporations

Pillaging Legon girls

Pillaging drugs

Pillaging forests

Pillaging gold, diamond

Pillaging Mother Earth

Pillaging themselves to death

Toxic-idiotic Aidoo

Toxic-Idiotic Aidoo

The demagogue

Demagoguing thievery

Toxic-Idiotic Aidoo

Went for gold

He went for scrap

Peddling scrap

Peddling crap

*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.