*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.
The Volta Regional Minister, Joseph Amenowode, has stated that he does not take
money or kickbacks from contractors... Mr. Amenowode however said that he will not
hesitate to take goats if they bring them to him. “I always reject envelopes from
people but if you bring me a goat, I will accept them, adding, “Will you have
rejected them if you were in my shoes?”
Bleating goats
Diapers
Goats in suit
Called educated elites
Diapering thievery
Goat-ing thievery
The educated thieves take it all
They have gone the way of goats
Foraging freely like goats
Released from walled moral probity
Corruption is their birthright
The educated elites
Dishonest kingpins
Take it all
Bleating like free-range goats
Bleating like non-fenced goats
The educated mercenaries
With long grafting fingers
Fingers that love to caress goats
Goats in envelopes
Bleating goats
The educated thieves take it all
And have it all made
The Joseph Amenowodes
Decries money
But loves goats in envelope
Concealed theft
Hidden theft
Give it four legs
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Corruption strutting on four legs
In the Volta
Across the Castle
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For all to see
Honest thieves
Enveloping goats
Enveloping diapers
Enveloping tractors
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Our bureaucrats
The pen-armed robbers
Come to riches in all forms
The educated thieves
Bleating like goats
Armed robbers wielding pens
Car thieves
Land thieves
House thieves
Tractor thieves
Scholarship thieves
Wife thieves
Ten percent bank-loans thieves
Immigration thieves
Legal thieves
Drug thieves
Furniture aka Sekyi-Hughes thieves
Thievery corrupt elites
Morally bankrupt elites
Who make armed robbers proud
Whose thievery dignify armed robbery
Whose craft sanitizes sakawa
Now we have goat thieves
Goats in envelope thieves
Thieves who tell us how they steal
Eh! The VR Regional Minister
Yes, oh!
Na him surprise you
No no surprise left Ghana
Hmm! Nothing dey surprise me
Ghana hard oh!
No Ghanaians dey sick
Yes we dey sick for corruption
Money no be good no more
Haba you for understand
Trokosi shrine for demand goats
Envelope no get place for shrine
Massa corruption be open book
Every Ghana worker be corrupt
Na true or corruption be our life
We dey breathe am
We dey wear am
We drink am
Diapers
Goats
The educated thieves take it all
They have gone the way of goats
Foraging freely like goats
Released from walled moral probity
Thieves who tell us how they steal
Honest thieves
Enveloping goats
Enveloping diapers
Enveloping tractors
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*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
