Alan K. Wait & Lie in the Slave Castle

Alan K. Wait & Lie in the Slave Castle: Too Early to Threaten Us with Lies

*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.

A leading member of the NPP, Mr. Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen, has stated that he
never threatened to resign from the party. He said what he did was to raise concerns
about some unfortunate activities that were inimical to the party's bid to win the
2008 elections. (March 30, 2010)

Alan K
Too early to threaten lies
Leave legal jargons for now
You threatened to resign from the NPP
The weight brought down the NPP
The threat
Not the actuality of resignation
Is the political fatality
Colorful liars
Political chameleons
That fool the masses
Tweaking beaks
Elongating thievery tongues & arms
Shuffling lies into tunnels of deceit
Wait and lie in the Slave Castle
That is our politicians’ birthright
The Slave Castle
The home of political lies
Rawlings, Kufour, Mills
Gloried in lying in the Slave Castle
Alan K is not lying in the Slave Castle
But still threatening to lie

Alan K is not lying in the Slave Castle
But still lying
Patenting the home of political lies
The Slave Castle
Built to enslave us
Edifice of past misdeeds
Of slavery
Of racism
Of marginalization
Of humiliation
Of lies that dehumanized us
Of lies that made us brutish beasts
Only in Africa
Politicians
Sit
Dazzled
Bedazzled by the Castle of our doom
Jubilee House sits idle
NDC-slated Jubilee Poultry Farm

Alan K is not lying in the Slave Castle
But still lying
Alan Kyerematen
Let your followers follow you
Your sycophants adore you
Let you cash cash for Alan Cash
Alan cash
A decoy of threats
Cash will cash cash for cash
It is too early to lie
Lies manifest in the slave castle
The edifice of modern Ghana
Shameful elites
That nurtures life in a slave castle
Liars
Thieves
Killers of the dream
Armed-robbers wielding pens
Those years are gone
Communication age is here
Lie and we all hear it all
Lies multiply
Gathers storm

Alan K is not lying in the Slave Castle
But still lying
Ghanaians are not fools
You preened your ego
Bloated like a dead bat
Floated like a kite
Thumped you chest
Your followers cheered
In their Charlie wates
While you rode in 4 X 4
Lies
Peddlers of lies
Lies bought by the mmobrowa
The paradox of being marginalized
Feeding on lies

Alan K is not lying in the Slave Castle
But still lying
You threatened to resign
The NDC rejoiced
You ripped the NPP apart
You behaved like a child
Sought appeasement
Sulked
Wept in public
When you lost your way
Never debunked the news
Stories
Rumors
Photo-ops
Media circus
Press conferences
Never said that no not true
Yes, I am still with the NPP
Until you were appeased
The resignation was not the moment
The threat was your glory
Of unstableness
Of eccentric personality shifts
The son of privilege
Privileging political divisions
Privileging threats at the expense of hope

Alan K is not lying in the Slave Castle
But still lying
Alan K
We heard your threats
We acted on your threats
The moment of political fatality
Wait and Lie in the Slave Castle
That is our politicians’ birthright

*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]