*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, PhD

“Ghana’s President, Mr. John Mahama, has said his party, the National Democratic Congress, won the 2012 presidential poll ‘cleanly and fairly’ and, therefore, confident the Supreme Court will re-affirm that victory… Our victory was won cleanly and fairly, and that justice will be served and cannot come to any other conclusion than acknowledging the very transparent, free and fair victory that we won at the elections and so I’d ask you while the Court case continues, to continue to strengthen the base of the party.’ Mr. Mahama told party supporters at the Headquarters in Accra to mark the NDC’s 21st anniversary” (Ghanaweb June 10, 2013).

Mahama just focus
On water crises
On electricity crises
On cocaine crises
On infrastructural decay crises
On the youth employment crises
On the pilfering at Tema port crises
On tax evasion crises
On endemic corruption crises
On street children crises
On Chinese galamsey crises
On healthcare crises
On Korle Lagoon crises
On the coming flood crises
On school fees crises
On bad road crises
On poor sanitation crises
On armed-robbery crises
On petrol shortage crises
On foreign loans, loans, loans crises

Mahama just focus
On the missing akomfem crises
Look for missing akomfem
The 15 million cedis worth of akomfem
Look for the akomfem
The 15 million cedis worth of akomfem
In the deserted North
In the vast abandoned North
Full of sad, sad SADA saddled deserts
The akomfem can easily be traced
Like the movement of the sun
In the deserted North
Look for the akomfem
In the deserted North
Full of sad, sad SADA saddled desert
Full of trees of forest of lies
Inhabited by akomfem
15 million cedis worth of akomfem
The miragic and magical akomfem
In the deserted North
Full of trees planted by SADA
Full of trees of forest of lies

Sad, sad SADA saddled desert
There in the treeless North
Sad, sad saddled SADA North
There, there find akomfem
Leave alone the Supreme Court
In the competent hands of judges
In the competent hands of Kpegah
The homeless bat of 37
He who never builds
Leave the Supreme Court
In the competent hands of Kpegah
Mahama just focus on Kpegah
Kpegah will the elections for you

*Akadu Ntiriwa 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. My poems and essays on Ghanaweb and elsewhere must not be reproduced in full or in part for any academic or scholarly work without my written permission.