*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.

“The New Statesman indicates that the NDC will this week find and announce the
“owner” of the ‘$20 million NDC headquarters’… Alfred Woyome was to be named as the
owner of the building but the party decided against this course of action in light
of the baggage Mr. Woyome is carrying, the latest being the whopping $41 million
judgment debt ruled in his favor. Why the NDC decided to engage the Chinese in
building this property. For a party that is very fast in churning out propaganda,
the details about the ownership of this building has been met with varied responses
from the NDC ranging from denials, counter denials and acceptance ownership”
(Abridged from Ghanaweb, December 12, 2011).

NDC barked at NPP & Jubilee House
NDC celebrates NDC’s palatial office
Ah! Our homogeneity
Of hypocrisies
Of stomach politricks
Oh! Our populist simplifier
Of passivity
Of poverty
Entombed in Mills’ NDC
Pimps of anti-corruption
Retailers of corruption
Con artists of it all
Ah! Ghana is suffering
Suffocated by the elites
Elite vultures in flight
In graceful flight
Soaring with grace
Still eternal predators
With fidelity to violence
Kills the masses slowly
With their violent degrees
Eternal predators
Pimping state wealth
Retailing the future
Wielding pathologies
Of hypocrisy
Of Trojan viruses
That kill the dream
That kill the future

Eh! Massa Ghana hard oh!
I tell you we be docile paa
One person get $41 million
Na dat be true NDC pay out
Woyome be NDC gutter
He dey carry the NDC filth
Ghana hard paa, hard paa
Me I know proper so
The elites dey con us
NDC be the same as NPP
Ah! NDC be more thief
Yes, all the noise dey make
You see how fat Mosquito be
Asiedu Nketiah now get chest
Ah! Bagbin’s cheeks dey fill up
Like Korle in the raining season
Ama Benyiwa now get three legs
NDC cry that NPP build Jubilee
NDC laugh that NDC build office
Massa Ghana hard oh
We for rise up now
Yes, we for rise up now

Arrogant elitist thieves
Like vultures in flight
The pen-armed robbers
The killers of the dream
NPP and NDC NPP
All dead chameleons
Their colors never change
NPP and NDC
Poisonous like DDT
In the body politic
NPP builds Jubilee House
NDC howled, cursed
JJ Rawlings & Mills
Bagbin & Tony Aidoo
Mosquito & Yaa Konadu
Cursed the NPP & Kufour
Mourned the loss of money
Lamented the use of Indians
Indian capital, Indian labor
Jubilee, the national home
Was called a mortuary
Was called a poultry farm

Today NDC that was broke
Broke in 2008
Like Akuapem Church rats
Today NDC is building it all
In their swollen cheeks
In their swollen stomach
In their swollen buttocks
NDCers building mansions
NDC is building an office
Office they can’t account for
NDC is using state resources
Using stolen wealth
Using Chinese expertise
Using Chinese labor
Using Chinese water
Using Chinese wood
Using Chinese sand

Ghanaians are suffering
Suffocated by the elites
With their violent degrees
Pimping state wealth
Retailing our future
Wielding pathologies
Of hypocrisy
Of Trojan viruses
That kill the dream

*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