Yutong Passengers & JJ: So How Konadu Get Cash for Campaign
*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.
I. YUTONG TROTRO GOSSIP
Massa we meet again
Eh! Old Chap how be oh
Ghana hard oh for we
Tro-tro be like oven today
NDC take ship to Sunyani
I hear say TRACTORS too
I hear say Atta Mess win
Yes oh, JJ/Konadu lost
Atta Mess win big time
Eh! Na dis be true history
Massa, say it, ring it again
World Bank no vote for JJ
Na that be end of an era
Epoch contoured by tribalism
The memoir of the bastard
The memoir of the wayward
Na dat end Volta hegemony
Na dat end Awonoor’s dream
Eh Konadu get money paa
Yes, money for campaign
But no money for house
No money to build house
Dem de lie to Ghanaians
JJ be richest Ghanaman
The richest without a home
JJ say he dey work for us
Yes, oh we the masses we
He for stay Sodom/Gomorrah
Let him take tro-tro or walk
JJ’s lie all end for Sunyani
II. JJ/KONADU’S RESPONSE
Ah! We are filthy rich
Our friends pay for it all
We say that all the time
Yes, we do say that
FRIENDS paid for it
ANTI-MILLS CAMPAIGN
THE ROAD TO SUNYANI
TUDU DOPE/WEE
EDUCATION OF KIDS
MANSIONS/FARMS
SPEED BOATS
FLEET OF CARS
JET-SETTING LIFESTYLE
HOSPITALS OVRESEAS
DESIGNER CLOTHES
NSAWAM CANNERY
RIDGE FIRE-STORM
VINTAGE WINES
III. GHANAIAN CHORUS
Wonders will never end
JJ FRIENDS pay for it
Paved the roads to Sunyani
Filled potholes to Sunyani
Ah! FRIENDS weren’t Friends
They were no longer FRIENDS
They now follow Simpa Mills
The Fante man with butter
JJ’s doting FRIENDS
JJ-made billionaires
Friends with rags-to-riches
Rags-to-riches biographies
The who is who of thieves
Konadu’s doting FRIENDS
Konadu’s subservient women
Women who became wealthy
Women who have it all
Even married women
Whose boyfriends are rich
JJ’s doting FRIENDS
Konadu’s doting FRIENDS
Know how to butter it all
Butter their political bread
Today Fante Mills has it
Simpa Mills has butter
He has buttered it for all
Buttered it for JJ’s FRIENDS
Stomach politicians on butter
Another sun will rise
Another butter will thaw
Greedy Bastards will mutate
Elitist thieves without shame
Masses with political amnesia
Yes, we the foolish masses
Oh! The lost postcolony
Oh! Dreams deferred
*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
