*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.

Koforidua, March 31, GNA - Mr. Mahama Ayariga, Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry
has called on the youth to maintain their confidence in the NDC government and vote
for the party in Election 2012. He said President Evans Atta Mills was working hard
to fulfil his 2008 Election campaign promises by creating more opportunities to meet
the demands of the people.

I. THIEVERY ROLE MODELS
Ghanaians are truly adrift
And complain about youth
Lost in the ocean of decrepitude
Of greasy moral putrefaction
Elitist thieves are our role models
The Maama Ayarigas and all
The Honorable Tractor-Thief
One man; five tractors
Five state-tractor thief
Showered with a big-man post
The lost disoriented youths
Copy-cating the Ayarigas
Our collective morbidity
Stem from dishonorable elites
Armed robbers emulate elites
Copy-cating the Ayarigas
The thievery role models
Generations lost to thievery
Lost in the forest of probity

The youth are on rampage
Emulating educated thieves
Armed robbers wielding pens
Tractor-thief is our role model
Ayariga is rampaging the youth
With his tractor role-modeling
When the youth kill
When the youth seize toilets
When the youth give ultimatums
When the youth close down offices
It is the mirror image of our politics
Of thievery rampaging politics
Of the hopeless educated elite
Morally bankrupt
Selfishness grafted on MONEY
State MONEY
Personal wealth
The youths are only copy cats

II. SOLDIER GO RISE?
Massa Ghana hard oh
Hmm! Ghana no hard
Oh! Ghana hard proper
No Ghana sick well well
Oh! Ghana hard for me
No Ghana make you sick
Eh! Massa you sick too
We all dey sick oh we sick
You no hear the tractor thief
Na which one incestuous one
No Maama Ayariga oh na him
Whetin now he take airdoplane
He say NDC create OPPOPOTWE
Haba na opportunity be that
Well na me de talk like Mills
Hmm Mills mind confuse
Na so so him tongue confuse
But where dey Mills now
You paa why you for ask
The man dey missing oh
NDC youth thugs dey rule
Whetin you want dem do
Maama Ayariga de wait oh
He do wait for OPPOPOTWE
He go take train & airdoplane
Ghana people we fool oh
Hmm chop make I chop
Whetin you get chop
Ayariga farmers dey chop
Ayariga bought tractor
Hmm he say for farmers
But he de charge farmers
And Mills make am minister
Me I no dey understand oh
Book-long people dey fool us
I fear say soldier people go rise
No that one no be good koraa
But politicians dey chop
JJ be soldier but he chop
Soldiers bad bad pass all
JJ be politician DR. DR.
I hear say JJ DR/ DR paper dey
Hmm! DR/DR paper no burn oh
Ha haa he keep am for pocket

Maama Ayariga be role model
Tractor Thief
Ta ta ta ta
We gave up shame
We gave up moral rectitude
Ayariga
Five government-tractor thief
A deputy minister
Alban Bagbin
The incestuous tractor farmer
A minister
Only in Black Africa
We have lost our moral bearing
Democracy
That democratizes thievery & graft
Democratizes thieves as role models

And we complain about youth rampage

*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