JJ Rawlings: The Holier than Thou Conman

“Former President Jerry John Rawlings has described himself as “an eternal servant of the people of Ghana” (Ghanaweb October 13, 2013).

“Former President Jerry Rawlings has chastised President John Mahama's inability to keep 'the bad ones' and 'crookish monsters' away from the Presidency” (Ghanaweb October 13, 2013).

“Some politicians and commentators are challenging former President Jerry John Rawlings to name persons he believes, are crooks within the Mahama-administration” (Ghanaweb October 14, 2013).

JJ is still preaching
Inferiorizing all
Demonizing all
Slurring all
Liman was demonized
Arkaah was bludgeoned
Kufour was ATTA-AYI-ED
Atta Mills was taunted to his death
JJ the wisest conman in Ghana
Today JJ is hunting down Akomfem
Akomfem Mahama that lives in SADA forest

JJ is still pontificating
The creator of political hooliganism
The creator of thievery billionaires
The postcolonial generation
Of thieves
Of bandits
Of vultures
Of mosquitoes
Of vampires
The Ahwois
The Tsikatas
The ET Mensahs
The Obed Asamoahs
The Afari Gyans
The Asiedu Nketiahs
The bloody Socialist leaches
The predatory pen-armed robbers
Socialist vultures of our time
The killers of the dream

JJ the murderer of hope
Shallow priest of probity
Reprises his holier than thou-isms
Preyed like the vulture
Preaching with the vulture's beak
Poaching with the vulture's claws
Soaring on, circling on
Right on the arc of superiority

JJ, the fake revolutionary
Outspoken delusionary
Sanctimonious exclusionary
With fire on his hind
With fire on his mind
The conman of Ridge
The arsonists of Ridge

JJ, the conman, is unraveling
Mummified in vulture-ing
The vulture of our time
JJ's history is like a virus
Of pathology of sadistic lies
Of immodesty as moderation

JJ brought war
Shortage of petrol
Shortage of kerosene
Shortage of food
Our stomachs churned
Our minds lost peace
Ah! The Rawlings' Chain
Chain of acidic hunger
Chain of abject poverty
Chain of utter destitution

JJ brought ethnic wars
Chieftaincy disputes
Asantes and Bonos
Konkombas and Nanumbas
Akuapem – Guans and Akans

JJ is lying
Showy self-righteousness
Like a peacock in mud
Walking contradictions
The lying encyclopedia
With a preface of deception
With conclusions of duplicity
JJ's braided mouth
His dead mind
Damaged psyche
Lies of a megalomaniac

JJ Rawlings
Our seasoned executioner
Our seasoned arsonist
Cries
Howls
Barks
Yells
Shouts, shrieks, scream
Foams at the mouth
Mouthing foamy holier than thou-isms

*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 [email protected]. All 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.