*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, PhD

**Submitted on December 17, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7FDPOgdF1A
***Check the webpage above regarding foreigners smuggled into Ghana to vote for the
NDC

“President John Mahama has made a passionate appeal to Ghanaians to put behind them
the elections and forge ahead to build a united country. The outcome of the
elections remains a subject of dispute as the New Patriotic Party is heading to
court to challenge the results. But addressing hundreds of members of the Women
Aglow Ministry at a special service for successful elections, President Mahama said
the support of Ghanaians was crucial to moving the country forward” (Ghanaweb,
December 15, 2012)

If we wish to develop
Our subtext must be real truth
Not cartoonish toxic truth
That laughs at truth
That bullies truth
That slanders truth
That badgers truth
If we wish to develop
To reemerge from the mist
Of being bamboozled
Of being benighted
Of being battered
Of being buffeted
Of being bullied
Of being banged
We must cure our allergies
Debilitating allergies of deceit
Our captivating eloquence of lies
Of false provenance of peace
Straddling regalia of fraudulence
Like Korle Lagoon
At the center of the serene calm


President Mahama
National elections
Are not pito/apio contest
We don’t spit in the sand
For the fulfillment of fun
And move on
Are not fufu/akple contest
We don’t slap our stomachs
For the fulfillment of satisfaction
And move on
We can’t move on
Like clouds after the storm
Ah! The savage indignation of rigging
Of silencing the voices of voters
Of false heroic narratives truth and peace

President Mahama
First Tell your Noise-Makers
The NDC’s Communications Team
That silence is a form speech
Your one million messengers
Paid 6000 dollars per month
Your discordant messengers
Tell your sharp teeth- ministers
Tell the Mosquito that never gets fat
Tell Tony Aidoo, the new NDC car thief
He who prefers crappy scrap
Tell the politicized police
Tell the EWE-run BNI
Tell them not to stoke fires
Tell them not to provoke the NPP
With political baiting

And sir tell yourself
Not to meddle in NPP affairs
Leave Alan Kyeremateng for now
Promoting him is divisive, not nationalistic
Promoting him rubs Nana the wrong way

Let us shun bogus peace
Forced peace
False peace preached by agents
Let peace arrest our passivity
Of “Enye hwee”
Of “Fama Nyame”
Of “Saa na wote”
Of “Make you no mind am”
Peace in pieces
Stolen verdicts
Allow the NPP to go to court
To prove their case
Then we can put all behind us

President Mahama
Unclench your fist
Set free the doves of truth
We prefer a piece clear glass
To your piece of obfuscated peace
Great leaders, citizens
Don’t run away from truth
Like 37 bats running away from daybreak
Like Mills jogging on his sick bed
Running against truth
President Mahama
Don’t run against truth
Run on behalf of truth
Great leaders, citizens
Seize moments of truth
Cease moments of untruth
They run for truth
They run on behalf of truth
They stand behind truth

*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.