*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.

** Dedicated to Col. Roger J. Felli who was killed by Rawlings and his lunatics for taking a legal loan of 50, 000 “old” cedis to build a house in his hometown.

“The EOCO report said Mr. Nerquaye-Tetteh was the Chief State Attorney directly in charge of the Woyome case. [Nerquaye-Tetteh] admits that he drafted all the letters… concerning the transactions leading to the payments to Mr. Woyome…” (Ghanaweb Feb 4 2012).

“The EOCO report uncovered… that Woyome had paid a gigantic amount of GH¢400, 000 (¢4billion) into Gifty Nerquaye-Tetteh’s account” [after he had been paid GH¢58million]” (Ghanaweb Feb 9, 2012).

“Samuel Nerquaye-Tetteh [writes that] ‘My only crime is that I allowed my wife to accept help from Mr. Woyome with regard to her business’” (Ghanaweb March 3, 2012).

“In matters of this nature, it is impossible for a lone outsider like Mr. Woyome to be able to act alone and succeed without ‘support’ and or failure and negligence on the part of public officers. It is therefore time for Woyome to name the collaborators and benefactors, and or the gang who helped him to defraud the nation the GHC58, 000,000.00 as he has often threatened to do. Fellow Ghanaians, today, with the ruling of the Supreme Court, it is now absolutely clear that the following persons have questions to answer:
1. Betty Mould Iddrisu (then Minister for Education who was then the A-G and Minister for Justice),
2. Dr. Kwabena Dufour, then Minister for Finance and Economic Planning.
3. Henry Martey Newman, the then Chief of staff to the President.
4. Ebo-Barton Oduro, the Deputy A-G.
5. Arthur Amissah, then Governor of the Bank of Ghana. (Abridged from AFAG Statement, Ghanaweb, August 1, 2014).

Let us treat them
Treat them like pests
Like sanguinary pests
Blood-thirsty pests
Like Korle mosquitoes
Let us kill them
Kill all the killers
The educated thieves
Killers of the dream
Time to kill these killers
Killers of the dream
The Betty Moulds
The Nerquaye-Tettehs
The Kwabena Dufours
The Henry Martey Newmans
The Ebo-Barton Oduros
The Arthur Amissahs

Killers of the dream
Treat them like pests
Like sanguinary pests
Blood-thirsty pests
Like Korle mosquitoes
Let us kill them

Oh! The elitist pen-robbers
Killers of the dream
Of our postcolonial dreams
Of managing our own affairs
Of our eternal self-sufficiency
Of Africanizing independence
“Stealers” who steal from us
Send us a poisoned judicial letters
Wrapped in missiles of lies

Ah! Nerquaye-Tetteh
The pen-armed robber
Uses his bloody pen
Ah! Write to all of us
Judicial letter of dishonesty
Judicial letter of deceit
Ah! His letter of conceit
Just like indebting his wife
His collateral wife
His pawn
Prostituted to greedy Woyome
Gifting Gifty to greedy Woyome
Oh! For the gift of ten percent
Poured into Gifty’s ACCOUNT

Samuel Nerquaye-Tetteh
Put up his wife for sale
Pawned his wife as pawn
Indebted to Woyome
The pawn-credit to steal
Samuel Nerquaye-Tetteh
Steal millions of our cedis

The pen-armed robbers
The delirious foes
The vultures among us
That carcass our bodies
To feed on our body-politic
The vultures take us for fools
To canonize their thievery
As a right
As a birthright
As rite of their right
Elites who exploit us
Elites who imprison us
The impoverished
The marginalized
The disempowered

Let us treat them
Treat them like pests
Like sanguinary pests
The educated thieves
Who make us poor
Let us treat them
Treat them like pests
Like sanguinary pests
Blood-thirsty pests
Like Korle mosquitoes
Let us kill them
Kill all the killers

*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.