*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.


JJ Rawlings: “‘The best hope we could have given the people was to give them back the justice they lost in the previous regime. I have mentioned poor enquiries in the Mobilla and other cases and called for more thorough investigations’… Rawlings was speaking during a courtesy call on him by a delegation of Chiefs, Members of Parliament, Regional Ministers, DCE¹s and other identifiable groups from the Upper West Region” (Ghanaweb March 17, 2010).

JJ Rawlings
Our seasoned executioner
Cries, cringes
Shouts, shrieks, scream
Foams at the mouth
Mouthing foamy holier than thou
Foaming politics of deceit
Hauling
Taunting
Summoning Mobilla’s ghost
Summoning Ya Na’s ghost
Bathing in the blood of Mobilla
Sauntering in blood
To cleanse his murderous rampage
To douse the haunting fires of blood
Theatrical production of congealed blood
Bloody politricks to win Northern Chiefs
We weep for the Judges
At dawn when Akan chiefs visit
JJ must invoke the Akan Judges
JJ knows their killer
It is JJ Rawlings

JJ Rawlings
Murderous agent
The know-all sanctimonious
The vessel of hundreds
Those forced to drink cement-gari
Those abducted, slaughtered
Firing squads
Those impaled by kangaroo courts

JUSTICE for Mobilla & Ya Naa
And JUSTICE for all
Those who died under your watch
Your murderous rampage
Seek JUSTICE

1st BATCH 18/5/84
1. Tijani Suleman
2. Awuley Lartey
3. Samuel Quaye

2nd BATCH 26/5/84
1. Joseph Aryee Dick
2. Frank Alando
3. Ebenezer Obeng
4. Ferguson

3rd BATCH 19/9/84
1. Flt. Lt. Kojo lee
2. Issahaka Fuseini
3. Sumail Wangara
4. Issahaka Bukari
5. Nii Amu Addy
6. Sgt. ?T? Wayo
7. Nyamekye
8. Kwakuvi
9. Kwaku Norkor
10. Azuma Dagarti

4th BATCH 23/3/85
1. Danjuma Abdul Raman
2. Tettey Nartey
3. Douglas Aryeetey

5TH BATCH 24/5/85
1. George Salami
2. Kofi Osei Ricky
3. Augustus Owuo

6TH BATCH 26/5/85
1. Major Twumasi
2. Major Ocran
3. Sgt. Issahaka
4. Sgt. Anku
5. Ibrahim Baba
6. Pte. Holdbrook
7. Abu (Taller)
8. Azina Nartey

7TH BATCH 31/5/85
1. Kwame Adu
2. Mark Boaham
3. Joseph Odonkor

8TH BATCH 20/5/86
1. Godwin M. Goka
2. Samuel Atta
3. Brefo Berko
4. A.B. Kankani
5. Kyereme Djan
6. C. Koomson
7. W.O. II Aforo
8. Sgt. R. Kwaku
9. Samuel Torsoo
10. Kwaku Torsoo
11. George Badame
12. Anthony Kofie
13. Seidu Salifu
14. Sulemana (killer)
15. Seth Amponsah
16. Kwame Addo

9TH BATCH 26/12/86
Kwabena Sarfo
Joseph Forson
Kwame Mathias
Osmanu (Jamaica)

10TH BATCH 26/7/87
1. Joseph Annan
2. Baba Abaana
3. Sanni Haruna
4. Samuel Dughatey
5. Meiriga Mohammed
6. Martin Margquaye
7. Martin Balame
8. Adamu Mohammed
9. Rashid Awolowo
10. Kwabena Asare
11. Narh Cofie

11TH BATCH 26/6/88
1. Wahaab
2. Oko (Zion)
3. Las Palmas
4. Emmanuel
5. German Cargo
6. Chorkor Spanner
7. Love Chieo
8. Mahammed
9. Kwasi Twum
10. Edward Martey
11. Moses
12. K.C. George Kudaya
13. Alidu Musah
14. Adams
15. Mark Conney

12TH BATCH 3/9/88
1. Kofi Buor
2. Atta Kussasi
3. Kwaku Duah
4. Philip Duah
5. Francis Anab
6. Olu Biney
7. Acheampong
8. Argos (OSA)
9. Moro Sapianu
10. Kwesi Kakraba
11. Opoku Amane

13TH BATCH 1/10/88
1. Nana Adjei
2. Kwateng
3. Paul Jackson
4. Ben Affi
5. Okomfo Agyemang
6. Kwame Ofori
7. Delle
8. Boscoe
9. Osmanu
10. Nana Twene Bafor

14TH BATCH 3/2/90
1. Kwesi Agbenyor
2. Mustapha Amidu
3. Seth Sowah Akrong
4. Ben Teiko Aryee
5. Emmanuel T. Abenseh
6. Issifu Salifu
7. Kwame Azanu
8. Awudu Sulley
9. Kwaku Dagbah

15TH BATCH 17/7/93
1. Mustapha Bruce
2. Godfred Nyavie
3. Atta Bruce
4. Moses K. Akrong
5. Eric Nii Adu Addo
6. Vincent Ayivor
7. Zakari Salifu
8. Issah Issahaka
9. Kwame Nkansah
10. Kweiper Yartey
11. Yaw Medagodzi
12. Benjamin Mireku
13. Samuel Akiti
14. Odartey Aryee
15. Ahmed Smide
16. Abu Hashiru
17. Kofi Koduah
18. Mohammed Ali

RANDOM OTHERS
BB Bismarck, Yeye Boy
Osofo Asare (Kumasi)
Taxi drivers who crossed your convoys

JJ Rawlings
Our seasoned executioner
Mouthing foamy holier than thou
Foaming politics of deceit
Summoning Mobilla’s ghost
Bloody politricks
We weep for the Judges
At dawn when Akan chiefs visit
JJ must invoke the Akan Judges
JJ knows their killer
It is JJ Rawlings
Holier than thou
Seasoned executioner

*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