*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, PhD
“A High Court in Accra on Thursday dismissed a suit filed by a former Justice of the Supreme Court, Francis Yaonasu Kpegah against 2012 flagbearer for the New Patriotic Party, Nana Akufo-Addo. The former judge, who failed to show up in court the last time the case was called, had claimed Nana Akufo Addo is holding himself out as a lawyer when evidence available to him proves otherwise” (Ghanaweb May 2, 2013).
They have demonized him for years
Demonized by the Kpegahs
Of restless, panicky Volta
Of the NDC-Volta
Of the tycoons of “tribalism”
Of the kingpins of mischief
Akufo-Addo has been demonized
The Kpegahs of NDC have said it all
But, but
They never say he is a thief
That Akufo-Addo is a thief
They never say he is a “stealer”
They never say he is corrupt
They never say he is a pen-armed robber
They never say he lives for free in our bungalow
So let all celebrate Nana
Ah! Nana Akufo-Addo
Nana Oh! Ah! Nana
Let them drown in the Volta
Let the Kpegahs drown
Drown in the restless Volta
With their debris of demonizing
What will Kpegah drown
In the restless Volta
Of NDC’s organized chaos
Of their dirges of mischief
Of sad expenditure of mischief
The Volta made restless
Restless and cresting
With inchoate flows
In chorused flows
Of fetishizing false canons
Of assembling mischief
Of hostaging simplisms
The inchoate flow
Of the Kpegahs
Of the Awonoors
Of the Bokors
The inchoate flow
Bearing gifts of anti-Akanism
They said and said
The Kpegahs of NDC
They have said and said
They have chorused all
They have chorused all
That Akufo-Addo is a fraud
That Akufo-Addo is an “urinator”
That Akufo-Addo is anti-Islam
That Akufo-Addo is a woman
That Akufo-Addo is not an Akyem
That Akufo-Addo is not an Akuapem
That Akufo-Addo is not a Ghanaian
That Akufo-Addo lacks classmates
That Akufo-Addo’s initials was not WAD
What is next
What will Kpegah drown
What will he drown in the Volta
Kpegah the aging 37 bat
The bat in government house
The embroidered bat
The bat who never built a hut
Not in Alavanyo
Not in Accra
Like 37 bat
Hanging upside down
His rear-end to the world
What will Kpegah drown
In the restless Volta
Of NDC’s organized chaos
Of their dirges of mischief
Of sad expenditure of mischief
The Volta made restless
Restless and cresting
With inchoate flows
In chorused flows
Of fetishizing false canons
Of assembling mischief
Of hostaging simplisms
The inchoate flow
Of the Kpegahs
Of the Awonoors
Of the Bokors
The inchoate flow
Bearing gifts of anti-Akanism
So let all celebrate Nana
Ah! Nana Akufo-Addo
Nana Oh! Ah! Nana
Let them drown in the Volta
Let the Kpegahs drown
With their debris of demonizing
Drown in the restless, panicky Volta
*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.
