*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.

“Former President Jerry John Rawlings has vowed never to depart from the principles that led to the 31st December revolution in 1981. Mr. Rawlings in a message to mark the 32nd anniversary of the revolution he led resolved to "continue to confront the rot that is eroding the values many laid down their lives for. Some of us cannot and will never depart from the principles that led to the revolution and sustained it for so long. We shall continue to confront the rot that is eroding the values many laid down their lives for. The struggle continues’” (Ghanaweb, December 31, 2013).

“A member of the communication team of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) Alhaji Naziru Mohammed claims Rawlings’ regime was without any form of sleaze since the revolt he led in 1981 resulted in freeing up opportunities that led to the socio-economic and socio-political advancement of the country” (Ghanaweb January 2, 2014).

What principles
Save your tattered alibi
JJ you have no principles
You are just a conman
You are oasis of theft

JJ killed Roger Felli for taking a loan of 50, 000 Old cedis
Today JJ & Konadu own Nsawam Cannery
The conman who preached one man one toilet
Today JJ has ten toilets in his Adjirigano palace
The conman who closed down Legon for one year
The same JJ educated his four kids overseas
JJ, the conman of contradictions
Of deceit
Of amateurish ideologies
Of megalomania
Of holier-than-thou

JJ, the murderer
Who calls himself the Savior
Hmm! The con man
Who calls himself Probity
Hmm! The extravagant man
Who calls himself Frugal
Hmm! The tribalist
Who calls himself Nationalist
Hmm! The arsonist
Who calls himself the “Fire-service”

JJ oh JJ Rawlings
JJ kokoti JJ Jejeti
The architect of WDC, PDC
Architect of workplace violence
Indiscipline in the workplace
Graft in the workplace

JJ the man of violence
He who breaks laws
He who kills and walks free
Grand failure in a 20-year rule
That killed hope, future
That killed Akan industry
That killed Akan judges
Death by RAWLINGS’ CHAIN

JJ our heroic violent man
His politics is violence
Konkomba-Nanumba War
Breakup of Akuapem state
Oh eternal peaceful Akuapem
Techiman-Asante impasse
JJ beat up Arkaah
JJ bullied his ministers
JJ gave broken-bottle hair-cuts
JJ used Shit/-o bombing
Politics of human excreta

JJ’s past of thuggery
Yesterday’s machomen
Today’s footsoldiers
JJ the conman is unraveling

JJ, the creator of billionaires
The Ahwois
The Tsikatas
The ET Mensahs
The Obed Asamoahs
The bloody Socialist leaches
The Socialist opportunists
Socialist vultures of our time
Today JJ talks about principles
Of pathology of sadistic lies
Of Immodesty for moderation
Ah! JJ lives in Sodom-Gomorrah
Ah! JJ is the eternal poor man
JJ he who created billionaires
Ah! He who forever likes the poor

JJ, the conman, is unraveling
Mummified in vulture-ing
The vulture of our time
JJ’s history is like a virus
Of pathology of sadistic lies
Of false self-righteousness

*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.