*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.

"President Mills has challenged critics who claim his government has not achieved
anything since assuming office to open their eyes to see the numerous developmental
projects across the country. The President made the comments when he commissioned a
three unit classroom block under the Millennium City project at Mamprobi, a suburb
of Accra (Ghanaweb July 18, 2012)

Mills’ great inspiration to all
Ghanaians open your eyes
There is Mills’ air
Mills can touch his air
Mills can see his air
Mills can hear his air
That is Mills’ achievement
The NDC’s achievements
The three unit classroom block
The three unit classroom block
The three unit classroom block
The three unit classroom block
Tilting on Judgment-Debt Blocks

Atta Mills
The NDC’s loner
The NDC’s recluse
The NDC’s hermit
The NDC’s voyeur
The NDC’s prisoner
The Castle-captive
Imprisoned in an oxygen tank
Imprisoned by Keta School Boys
Imprisoned by the Fante Gangsters
Imprisoned by the Northern Pito Team
Imprisoned by the Ahwoi Socialist Bandits

Today Mills is free
Ah! Mills has been set free
Like a dizzying unleashed pig
Mills is free
Like a pig
Mills’ freedom is mud
Mills love his mud
Like a dizzying pig
Mills runs into wide-eyed Ghanaians
Mills tells Ghanaians to open their eyes
So they can see his air
Mills’ air

The Keta School Boys
Said it: Let us free Mills
The Northern Pito Team
Said it: Let us free Mills
The Fante Gangsters
Said it: Let us free Mills
The Ahwoi Socialist Bandits
Said it: Let us free Mills

Simpa Atta is free
Mills roams free
Konongo-Kaya is free
Free to carry air
Free from his blindfold
Mills can see all
Mills can see now
Mills can see his air
Mills can touch his air
Mills can hold his air

Yes, Atta can see it all
The NDC achievements
The three unit classroom block
The three unit classroom block
The three unit classroom block

Achievements that are a mirage
That Ghanaians can’t see
Oh! Simpa Atta
Oh! Atta Mortuary
Oh! Atta Konongo Kaya

Mills’ great inspiration to all
Ghanaians open your eyes
There is Mills’ air
Mills can touch his air
Mills can see his air
Mills can hear his air
Mills can hold his air
That is Mills’ achievement
The NDC’s achievements
The three unit classroom block
The three unit classroom block
The three unit classroom block
Tilting on Judgment-Debt Blocks

*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.