First Come First Served: AFRC/P-NDC & the Corruption Midstream

*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.

“The Committee for Joint Action (CJA) has called on government to immediately prosecute all public officials cited for embezzling about GH¢166.1 million in the 2008 Auditor General’s report” (Ghanaweb March 11, 2010).

“Justice Kpegah believes the seeming inaction of the A-G in the face of abundant evidence of corruption and graft against former government officials had baffled many supporters of the ruling National Democratic Congress who were now disillusioned” (MyJoyOnline March 11, 2010).

The CJAs and Kpegahs
Justice for all Ghanaians
Let us begin with the AFRC/P-NDC
Anchored in lush Indemnity midstream

Upstream corruption
SMC I & SMC II
Punished by who born firing squad

Midstream corruption
AFRC/P-NDC
Flooding with sanctimoniousness pride

Downstream corruption
NPP
Waiting for the drying up of midstream

All Ghanaians
Kutu & Akuffo
Kotei & Felli
Utuka, Afrifa & Boakye
The slaughtered judges
All Ghanaians yearn
Yearn for JJ’s voice
Probity, accountability
His din of 30 years
Anti-corruption anthems
Of transparency clothed in justice
Of jailing the thievery elite
Of jailing the killers of the dream

Let us dry up the river of corruption
Flooding our nation
Flooding our way of life
Floating aimlessly
Canoes of a lost generation
Adrift
Reckless wrecking course
Of graft, thievery
Of our penchant for mediocrity
Of democratization of corruption
Adrift in deltaic abyss of thievery

Drying up of rivers begins at source
Watershed of generational corruption
The watershed of thievery elitism
The watershed of generational corruption
Was once in the upstream
Upstream of SMC I & SMC II
Of who born firing squad

Anchored in the midstream is AFRC
JJ’s soiled political fingerprints
Of AFRC/P-NDC
Of NDC I & NDC II

Downstream is the NPP
Raging for a season of aridity

The watershed of thievery
Anchored in midstream
Drained by the AFRC/P-NDC
Flooded NDC I & NDC II
The surviving thievery elites
Padded by the Socialists
Chameleons of political greed
Their politics in the dry season
Their greed in the raining season
Our calendar of hopelessness
Initiated
By the accountability prophet
JJ Rawlings
The hero of 50, 000 cedi notes
The hero of divestiture
The hero of Nsawam Cannery
The hero of $200, 000 Cotton-Rice
The hero of who born dogs
The hero of who born fire
Of corruption
Of arrogant thievery
Of abduction and murder
Of moral decay
Of shit-bombing
Of violence
Of constitutional provisions
Meandering in midstream
Meandering woes
Stagnant in the midstream of Indemnity
Of Constitutional Provisions
Valley of protection for Socialist thieves
Socialist thieves
Anchored in the midstream
Swimming against the tide
The tide and time of justice
Choreographing deceit
Still shouting accountability

Kpegah, CDS
Let us begin with the AFRC/P-NDC


*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