Opinions of Saturday, 23 January 2010

Columnist: Mensema, Akadu Ntiriwa

EO & Betting Mold: A Theater of AG’s Judicial Pranks

*By Akadu N. Mensema, Ph. D.; Post-Grad. Dipl.


I. POST-MOLDING OF JUDICAL PRANKS
The 25 charges that never were
EO thievery charges have been stolen
By the AG’s Office
Stolen from AG’s office being molded
25 BIGGEST charges all gone
While molding the AG’s Office
For a theater of judicial pranks
Oh! Ghanaians
The AG is finally lost, losing it
Has gone legally berserk in her own office
Thieves with 25 Charges are free
Free to roam in our minds
Even as we laugh at the prank
Laugh as the molding of AG goes on
Let us look for the thieves
They are in the AG’s mindset of office
Haunted by the witch-hunters of EO


II. MOLDING JUDICIAL PRANKS
Betting on a mold is molding justice
Molding justice, mocking justice
Marauding justice, murdering justice
Witch-hunt
That is hunting the hunters
Worse than Kangaroo’s biography
Architect of kangaroo courts
The “Wizard” Tsatzuu-Azizau
Made an oil kingpin by King Ridge
Knew Nsawam is for kangarooed criminals
That Korle Bu is for the sick
And so the wizard became sick
And happily lived in Korle Bu
His heart disease
Became heartfelt happiness
When a handsome pardon came his way
And the Kangaroo Man goes to work
To please the King Ridge
With his chief linguist Milling in line
And our infesting legal Molding in tow
Marauding justice in Ghana
Molding judicial pranks
For political vindictiveness


III. MOLDING 25 MAJOR CHARGES
Forget about the Mold’s lesser charges
And count 25 major charges on your fingers
You must have more than ten fingers
And ability to laugh at judicial pranks
And so the Mold
Says EO didn’t have annual meetings
Charge 1
Says EO didn’t have a name
Charge 2
Says EO signed signatures of all Ghanaians
Charge 3
Says EO lacked offices in the Western Region
Charge 4
Says EO was founded by Kufour’s associates
Charge 5
Says EO didn’t exist on white paper
Charge 6
Says EO was not a club, but company
Charge 7
Says EO is owned by locals & foreigners
Charge 8
Says EO was formed in 20002 & 2004
Charge 9
Says EO didn’t contact all Ghanaian Ministries
Charge 10
Says EO’s particulars are offensive
Charge 11
Say EO deceived all Ghanaian public officers
Charge 12
Says EO didn’t share profit/loss to all Ghanaians
Charge 13
Says EO used air-conditioned offices
Charge 14
Says EO didn’t have $10,000 in their pockets
Charge 15
Says EO established a hospitality company
Charge 16
Says EO failed to discuss their Company
Charge 17
Says EO is not, but AG is causing financial loss
Charge 18
Says EO discouraged foreign investors
Charge 19
Says EO will give victory to AG in 2010
Charge 20
Says EO isn’t Mabey and Johnson
Charge 21
Says EO didn’t go the way of Nsawam Cannery
Charge 22
Says EO is just being molded into law
Charge 23
Says EO is it for the AG
Charge 24
Says EO didn’t have meetings
Opps! Charge 25 and still repeating
Betting on a mold is mocking justice
In a theater of judicial pranks


*Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema 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