*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.
“[Stephen] Asamoah Boateng (Asabee) held a management meeting during which he
told senior officials of the Ministry of the need to suspend all investment
activities already budgeted for 2008 in order to direct those funds for
renovation works at the Ministerial Block. The renovation work included tiling
of the offices. For the renovation works to commence, Asamoah Boateng brought
Zuleika [his wife] as the contractor in charge of the renovation works…
investigations revealed that Zuleika was not qualified to take up the job adding
that at that time, she was in charge of a boutique business known as Lady Zee
Intimate and Body Shop…” Ghanaweb, Aug 17, 2009).
“Accra, Jan. 12, GNA – “The Fast Track High Court on Wednesday ordered that a
hearing notice should be served on the Attorney General in the case in which
Stephen Asamoah Boateng [Asabee], ex-Minister of Minister of Information and
National Orientation, and a number of other people, are being held for allegedly
failing to follow due process before rehabilitating the Ministry's Block”
Ghanaweb, Jan 12, 2011).
DDT officials
NPP officials
NDC officials
Killers of the dream
Canonization of thievery
Mummified in thievery
Career gyrations of thievery
Theft is their selling point
Our sad allergies to reality
Asabee the handsome man
The pearly-pig in the mud
With an ever-open mouth
With a nose to the skies
With crater-like eyes
Looking down for the sun
Asabee must be in jail
Jail for contractor-ing his wife
Defrauding the state GH¢86,915.85
Thievery renovations of a block
Using the back door tactics
Using non-due process
Using an untested company
Using his wife - Zuleika
Kufour Hotel is free
Sekyi-Hughes went free
Kwamena Bartels ran free
Asabee may go free, free
Free like wind in a windfall
Ghanaians worship thieves
Ghanaians respect thieves
State burials for thieves
Killers of the dream
The Asabees of Ghana
Yes, talk about it all
Talk about justice
Talk about due process
Talk about evidence
The wheels of justice
The snail wheels of Mills
The lonely wheels of Mills
The Team B wheels of Mills
The Konongo wheels of Mills
The who born dog wheels of Mills
The greedy bastards wheels of mills
Have made the ASABEES our heroes
The Asabees of Ghana
Time to deter it all
Drought Corruption
Submerge graft
Flood nepotism
Swamp sex for jobs
Quarantine elitist thieves
The Asabees of Ghana
Killers of the dream
Educated mercenaries
The pen-thieves
Armed robbers in suits
Thieves who are worshipped
The Asabees of Ghana
Artisans of schools under trees
Artisans of hospitals of death
Artisans of death-trap roads
Educated thieves
Educated mercenaries
Criminals rewarded
Receiving it all
End of service benefits
Oversized pensions
Cocoa farmers lack it all
Talk about it all
Zero tolerance
For corruption
For Graft
For Nepotism
For using sex for jobs
For non-due processes
Talk about it all
DDT officials
NPP officials
NDC officials
Killers of the dream
Canonization of thievery
Mummified in thievery
Career gyrations of thievery
Theft is our selling point
Our sad allergies to reality
*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
