*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, PhD

“A Deputy Information Minister, Mr. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa says he will use the
five hundred thousand Ghana cedi damages claim from Kennedy Agyapong to construct
toilets across the country. .The deputy minister has sued the MP for Assin-North,
Kennedy Agyapong, for defamation” (Ghanaweb October 27, 2012).

Ah! Rawlings was apt
NDC’s public teeth
Apt on Sharp Teeth
Teeth that builds toilet

Sharp Teeth must bite Woyome
Open up Woyome for our money
Sharp Teeth
Teeth that make noise
Teeth that dig toilet
Patented sharp teething
Sharp Teeth should bite
Bite Woyome
To get our monies back
To build schools
Not toilets
To build hospitals
Not toilets
To build roads
Not toilets
To build electricity
Not toilets
To build Korle Lagoon
Not toilets
To build Keta Sea Wall
Not toilets

When Mills passed on
Sharp Teeth was silent
Teams B & C were silent
The Mahama they didn’t know
What Mahama would birth
Hmm! Another boy or girl
Mahama has gone the way of Mills
Silent
Dull
In a daze
Marching alongside Team B & C
Mouthing platitudes of peace
Of respect
Of tolerance
Mouthing platitudes
As Teams B & C break glass

Sharp Teeth
NDC’s public teeth
The teeth that all can see
The man with uncut teeth
The man who never worked
Whose only work was lying
Concocting lies
Whose reward was a Mills

Sharp Teeth
The man with uncut teeth
Will build toilet for Ghanaians
The breaker of glass
Sharp Teeth
He is still breaking it all
Glass
Teeth cutting
Grass
In dunce-ing daze
The dance of Teams B & C
The dunce of Teams B & C
Sharp teeth-ing
Sharpened teeth
That build toilet

Ah! Rawlings was apt
Apt on Sharp Teeth
NDC’s public teeth
Teeth that builds toilet

*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.