Mahama Unhappily Rapes Mills’ Bastard Salary-Child

*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, PhD

“President Mahama is reported to be unhappy with the salary increment of the
President, the deputy, Ministers of state and other officials of the executive.
Before Parliament went on recess, they approved the increment of salaries of the
President, his deputy and some members of the Executive arm of governance. The
President will now be paid 12,000 Ghana Cedis monthly while his vice takes home
10,500 Ghana Cedis. Ministers and their deputies will also receive salaries ranging
from 8,000 and 9,000 Ghana Cedis.” (Ghanaweb, November 3, 2012)

President John Mahama
Mahama is the man with it all
The NDC’s disease
Patented by JJ Rawlings
Holier than thou theatrics
With decorated obfuscation
Like a peacock in the dark
Mahama’s glow is a pale shadow
Like a vulture on church spire
Mahama is a bird of prey praying
He is a pen-armed robber
Who hates his own signature
His sordid signature
Of graft
Of tribalism
Of nepotism
Of corruption

Mahama steals from us
And says he is unhappy
Unhappy that he is stealing
Mahama rapes Ghanaians
Mahama is unhappy
Yet Ghanaians are happy
Ghanaians are happy victims
As always we are happy victims
We salute those who rape us
We serenade those who rape us
We give rapists state burials
Rapists in the Castle
Rapists in Parliament
Rapists in courtrooms
Rapists in the pulpit
Pen-armed robbers
Their raping-ink
Its density
Its suffocation
Its smothering
Its strangling
It is the death of Ghana
Of pregnant women
Of street kids
Of poor workers
Of benighted farmers

John Mahama
The care-taker President
Custodian of Mills’ grave
Seasoned pen-armed robber
Pedestaled in batakari glow
Wings strutting like a peacock
Like a Savannah peacock
Facing his sunset at dawn
He is the man with it all
With decorated obfuscation
He accepts his new pay
He is unhappy with it
He had free education
He is against free education

President Mahama
The pen-armed robber
With a long pen
Long productive pen
Has nurtured bastards
NDC greedy bastards
Triumphant bastards
Seasoned thieves
Bristling with poise
Brimming with hubris
Of savannah winds
That cuts pathways
In a dust-storm
Of chaos
Of anarchy
Of poverty
Of putrefaction
Pen-armed robbers
Encircled thieves
Trapped in ink of corruption
Pen-armed robbers
Soaked with sordid ink
Of thievery
Of corruption
Of graft
Of tribalism
And Mahama is unhappy
He says he is not happy

MASSA: Eh! Son! Long time oh
SON: Massa, Ah! We meet again
MASSA: How the go dey go for you
SON: I dey like I no dey like Mills
MASSA: MPs and Mahama get new pay
SON: I hear say Mahama no happy
SON: He know the pay long ago
MASSA: Mahama be hypocrite paa
SON: Ah! We Ghanaians be fools oh
MASSA: Na true! Thieves dey rule us
SON: We go give all state burials
MASSA: Yes, for Sekyi-Hughesing us
SON: This Sekyi-Hughesing word big
MASSA: Na that be Woyomization too

*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.