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20.02.2010 Feature Article

JJ Our Encyclopedia of Deceit is Free and Nana Darkwa Is Not

JJ Our Encyclopedia of Deceit is Free and Nana Darkwa Is Not
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Accra, Feb. 18, GNA - Nana Darkwa, a panelist on a morning show at an Accra-based radio station, has been arrested for alleging that last Sunday's fire that gutted the Ridge residence of former President Jerry John Rawlings was deliberate.
Culture of silence
Relentless silence
That scared sacred bats
Bats comforting trees at 37 Hospital

Silence of shhhhhhhhhhh
That killed our friendliness
In taxis, trotros
In JJ's articulators of the 80s & 90s
At Makola where traders feared to smile
In the stadium supporters feared to cheer
At weddings in-laws feared in-laws
Culture of silence
That cut out old Arkaah's tongue

Thousand jails for JJ Rawlings
The encyclopedia of deceit, delusions
For a man with patented wrong answers
Since the doomsday of 1979

JJ has had wrong answers to all our fires
Fires of violence
Fires of deprivation
Fires of corruption
Fires of brutalization
Fires of “tribalism”

But JJ is a free man
Born-ing dogs
Romancing fire on Valentine's Day
But jailing those who talk about fire

JJ Shed tears of cacophonic deceit
About the slaughtering of the Judges
About the FIRE-ING of the Judges
JJ blamed imperialist forces
But knew his kinsmen had done it

JJ has had impulsive divisive answers:
Serial killing of 34 women
Ya-Na's death
Armed robbery
Liman's government
Kufour's government
Mills' government
That Nkrumah did nothing
That Nkrumah only signed documents

But Rawlings is free, walking free
Encyclopedia of deceit, delusions

Culture of silence
Forced us to foam on our laughter
Choreographing silence as we mourned
The slaughter-FIRE-ING of the Judges
The FIRE-bombing of Col. Enniful
Death squads
Roamed the night with FIRE-POWER
To pillage whispers of our despair
Curfews suffocated our oxygen of ideas

Yet, JJ is free like the fire at Ridge

Press freedom lost
Human excreta bombs in media houses
Human excreta aka SHEETO BOMB
JJ's weapon of choice
Carried, smelt, and massaged with grace
By JJ and his sycophants
Now seizing toilets, that is
To entomb voices
Voices of dissent, that is
A sociopath in our generous midst
To silence us
JJ does all the barking
Of telling Ghanaians he knows it all
Yet has had obtuse answers in 20 years

JJ Demonized Kufour
Atta Ayi, armed robber
NPP killed 34 women

Oh! JJ Rawlings
Tensions that stifle faith in our voices
Creating dissonance in multiple voices

Today
Rawlings, the man who born dogs
Flea-diseased dogs, of rabid dogs
Bastardizing Mills' ministers
Of slow-snail Mills
Of coward Mills
Of thievery Mills' ministers
Of mortuary Mills
Of who born dogs

Rawlings is walking free like fire
Romancing fire on Valentine's Day

Atta Mills
Law Prof at loss with our laws
Choreographing the barking of a dog
Basking with JJ's infested dogs
Set on fire by he who born dogs
Encircled by the firewall at Ridge
Oh! Mills! Free yourself
Oh! Mills! Free us
From the dogs of rabid politics
From the fires of gloom and doom

*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]

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