Hunt Down Betty Moulds, Neequaye-Tettehs, etc.

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Hunt Down Betty Moulds, Neequaye-Tettehs, etc.

** Dedicated to Col. Roger J. Felli who was killed by Rawlings and his lunatics for taking a legal loan of 50, 000 “old” cedis to build a house in his hometown.

“The EOCO report said Mr. Nerquaye-Tetteh was the Chief State Attorney directly in charge of the Woyome case. [Nerquaye-Tetteh] admits that he drafted all the letters… concerning the transactions leading to the payments to Mr. Woyome…” (Ghanaweb Feb 4 2012).

“The EOCO report uncovered… that Woyome had paid a gigantic amount of GH¢400, 000 (¢4billion) into Gifty Nerquaye-Tetteh’s account” [after he had been paid GH¢58million]” (Ghanaweb Feb 9, 2012).

“Samuel Nerquaye-Tetteh [writes that] ‘My only crime is that I allowed my wife to accept help from Mr. Woyome with regard to her business’” (Ghanaweb March 3, 2012).

“In matters of this nature, it is impossible for a lone outsider like Mr. Woyome to be able to act alone and succeed without ‘support’ and or failure and negligence on the part of public officers. It is therefore time for Woyome to name the collaborators and benefactors, and or the gang who helped him to defraud the nation the GHC58, 000,000.00 as he has often threatened to do. Fellow Ghanaians, today, with the ruling of the Supreme Court, it is now absolutely clear that the following persons have questions to answer:

1. Betty Mould Iddrisu (then Minister for Education who was then the A-G and Minister for Justice),

2. Dr. Kwabena Dufour, then Minister for Finance and Economic Planning.

3. Henry Martey Newman, the then Chief of staff to the President.

4. Ebo-Barton Oduro, the Deputy A-G.

5. Arthur Amissah, then Governor of the Bank of Ghana. (Abridged from AFAG Statement, Ghanaweb, August 1, 2014).

Let us treat them

Treat them like pests

Like sanguinary pests

Blood-thirsty pests

Like Korle mosquitoes

Let us kill them

Kill all the killers

The educated thieves

Killers of the dream

Time to kill these killers

Killers of the dream

The Betty Moulds

The Nerquaye-Tettehs

The Kwabena Dufours

The Henry Martey Newmans

The Ebo-Barton Oduros

The Arthur Amissahs

Killers of the dream

Treat them like pests

Like sanguinary pests

Blood-thirsty pests

Like Korle mosquitoes

Let us kill them

Oh! The elitist pen-robbers

Killers of the dream

Of our postcolonial dreams

Of managing our own affairs

Of our eternal self-sufficiency

Of Africanizing independence

“Stealers” who steal from us

Send us a poisoned judicial letters

Wrapped in missiles of lies

Ah! Nerquaye-Tetteh

The pen-armed robber

Uses his bloody pen

Ah! Write to all of us

Judicial letter of dishonesty

Judicial letter of deceit

Ah! His letter of conceit

Just like indebting his wife

His collateral wife

His pawn

Prostituted to greedy Woyome

Gifting Gifty to greedy Woyome

Oh! For the gift of ten percent

Poured into Gifty’s ACCOUNT

Samuel Nerquaye-Tetteh

Put up his wife for sale

Pawned his wife as pawn

Indebted to Woyome

The pawn-credit to steal

Samuel Nerquaye-Tetteh

Steal millions of our cedis

The pen-armed robbers

The delirious foes

The vultures among us

That carcass our bodies

To feed on our body-politic

The vultures take us for fools

To canonize their thievery

As a right

As a birthright

As rite of their right

Elites who exploit us

Elites who imprison us

The impoverished

The marginalized

The disempowered

Let us treat them

Treat them like pests

Like sanguinary pests

The educated thieves

Who make us poor

Let us treat them

Treat them like pests

Like sanguinary pests

Blood-thirsty pests

Like Korle mosquitoes

Let us kill them

Kill all the killers

Source: *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 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . 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.