*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has emerged unscathed, stronger, united and focused from its Eighth National Delegates Congress in Tamale and is poised to execute its "Better Ghana Agenda" to retain the confidence of Ghanaians.

I. MILLS: DREAMS IN SUSPENSE
Better Ghana Agenda
Too many new promises
While old ones are being discarded
Championed by a confused patriot
Being pushed around by
Heckled by the sculptor of delusions
Delusions of political dross
Of probity
Of Accountability
That never was
Chaperoned by men who are foreign to sweat
Sweetened by bulging stomachs of stately wealth
Cheered on by sweat-infested supporters
Who run in Charlie-woteys
After politrickians empired in 4X4 BMWs,
Cowards who marry politics
To rape, plunder it
Cowards whose only tomorrow is power
Power to plunder the state
Power to enrich their pockets
Power to swell their egos
Cowards who nurture street kids
10-year olds who sell dog chains
Street kids who have no future
Cowards who defer promises made to children
Cowards whose only courage is theft
Yet keep making new promises
Even as they steal children’s diapers

II.MILLS DREAMS DISCARDED
Tomorrow’s promises are dead
Today’s promises never see the horizon
Let alone the sun
Happy Ghana, Free Ghana
The NDC
Keeps weaving cottons of miragic promises
As they lose the threads
Of what can bring us
To the brink of their better Ghana
The sun departed with Mills
Happy Ghana has been sabotaged
By the one man who has a Kingdom
And Tamale has given him another 20 years
The King will remove his Tamale crown
And scream in public
Froth in public
Foam like a fish out water
Accuse all Ghanaians but himself
Complain that Mills’ crown is too heavy
That Mills is a go-slow chap
Like Swedru snails
That Mills has put D after Team B
Freedom was left behind with Mills
Progress was left behind with Mills
So the NDC King has come full circle
A quest for another 20 years
20 years in the wilderness of delusions
He will foam again
So Mills extend your chords of cotton wool
So Mill hold up our cotton wool
Of our 20,000-plus seasons of cowardice
To help clean up the foam of our lost dreams
From our bumbling King
The philosopher of our time
The hero of one thief one toilet revolution
Who now has 15 toilets to himself
A paradox of history largely told

*Akadu N.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