*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.
The embattled Chairman of the Confiscated Assets Committee, Mr. Carl Wilson, has finally been relieved of his position… Some irate youth locked out national officers at post, and denied them access to their offices, when they stormed the headquarters of the party at Kokomlemle, a suburb of Accra, to register their protest against Mr. Carl Wilson” (Ghanaweb March 26, 2010).
Massa dat 4 X 4 don fine paa
Na dat be NDC foot soldier
Eh foot soldiers dey for car too
You paa dem all dey for car
They for walk for foot la
Everything for Ghana be car
Hmm we no dey do car too
Na dat Car[l] man get name
Whetin you dey talk now
Car[l] dey take care of cars
Hmm Ghana change oh change
Na true change don come Ghana
How say thugs dey make politics
Why JJ come back for power
No no JJ dey burn power crazy
So whetin don change for we
NDC thugs seize NDC office
Well they no shit-o bomb am
No no be so I dey talk no be so
So wheting koraa dey change la
Thugs give UTITIMATU to Mills
Haba man you mean ultimatum
Yes me I wan talk like Mills
Yes utitimatu to sack Car[l]
Car[l] thieves plenty for Ghana
I dey pity burger people oh
Why dem be car thieves too
No be so dem dey bring cars
Make we for no worry koraa
Why say we for no worry
NDC thugs go go Castle
Dem already dey there
They go to change politics
Na you here all stories nkoa
Dem Stories say Mills sleep
Yes Mills dey sleep oh
Stolen cars dey for Castle
Mmm! Mills no dey care
NDC thugs give UTITIMATU
So Carl Wilson is gone at last
Thuggish pressure group
Experience in seizing cars
Experience in seizing toilets
Experience in killing opponents
Experience in forcing Mills’ hand
Forcing Mills’ hand on Wilson
To fire Wilson
Fingered 2000 times
Pointed at 2000 times
Written about 2000 times
Castle- statements 2000 times
Defended by Segbefia 2000 times
Rawlings barked at thieves 2000 times
But Mills only listened to thuggish ultimatum
Mills you have lost it
Thugs, machomen, footsoldiers
The fringe, violent youths
Are now your advisors
Team A of thuggish advisors
Shielded by the NDC umbrella
Praised for wrongdoing
The fringe
Infringing upon civil liberties
Pillaging, pillorying, plaguing
JJ Rawlings the apostle
The apostle of peace
Accountability, probity
Transparency
Of know-it-all
Never calls the fringe
Youthful thugs to order
Mills is lost
NDC thugs are in power
Tamale, Yendi, Agona Swedru
Kumasi, Techiman
Mamobi, Kokomlemle
Seizing toilets
Killing people issuing UTITIMATU
Basking in NDC’s political stench
Atta Mills
NDC thugs
Have keys to the Castle
Wake up Mills
They have the keys
The NDC thugs
To the doors of your office
Wake up in the daytime
Take the day from the Segbefias
Who defend car thieves
Cars hidden in the Castle
Eh! A child of who born dogs
Poodle Mills you are leashed
Roped in by who born dogs
Unleash yourself from thugs
Oh! Mills are you still in the Castle
Mills is now in thuggish enslavement
Of who born dogs
Of NDC irate youth
Eh! Simpa Panyin in a slave castle
It is all coming apart oh Mills
*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 [email protected]