{"id":283347,"date":"2011-02-27T17:39:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T17:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/02\/27\/asiedu-nketiah-the-bloody-mosquito-stomach-politician\/"},"modified":"2011-02-27T17:39:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T17:39:02","slug":"asiedu-nketiah-the-bloody-mosquito-stomach-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/27\/asiedu-nketiah-the-bloody-mosquito-stomach-politician\/","title":{"rendered":"Asiedu Nketiah: The Bloody Mosquito Stomach Politician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>\u201c[Johnson Asiedu Nketiah], the General Secretary of the NDC has rejected conflict of interest allegations made against him over the construction of the Bui Dam project. <\/p>\n<p>He is also a member of the Board of the Bui Authority is said to be a major supplier of blocks used in the construction of the project, a practice the opposition New Patriotic Party has cited as potential conflict of interest situation\u2026 Fred Oware accused [Nketiah] of selling the blocks at a higher price which has consequently increased the total cost of the project.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Joy News on Wednesday, Johnson Asiedu Nketia admitted selling the blocks to contractors of the project but vehemently rejected conflict of interest allegations. (Ghanaweb, February 17, 2011)<\/p>\n<p>Ghanaians with deep amnesia<br \/>We shall soon forget this<br \/>Nketiah will enjoy his loot<br \/>We shall worship him as a lord<br \/>We shall give him a state burial<br \/>He has our sacred reverence<\/p>\n<p>The hypocritical stomach politician<br \/>Mosquito Asiedu Nketiah<br \/>Paraded the Castle in the days of JJ<br \/>Shouted his voice hoarse at NDC rallies<br \/>His scruffy body<br \/>His fragile frame<br \/>Looks like a BA mosquito<br \/>His fluffy tie-and-dye shirt<br \/>Looks like he was wearing a parachute<br \/>Who patented his threadbare shirt<br \/>Whose sweat sent away houseflies<br \/>Whose children wore threadbare uniforms<br \/>Who debited akpeteshie<br \/>Who debited face- the-wall<br \/>The poor pseudo-revolutionary<\/p>\n<p>Today Mosquito is a multi-billionaire<br \/>Strutting the stage<br \/>Inciting mayhem<br \/>Criminalizing others<br \/>The stomach politician<br \/>The agile palm-wine tapper<br \/>Now a multi-billionaire<br \/>Like JJ Rawlings<br \/>Educating all his kids overseas<br \/>Who has it all<br \/>Mansions, cocoa farms<br \/>Palm-oil farms, orange farms<br \/>Block-making factory<br \/>Bottled-water making factory<\/p>\n<p>Mosquito Asiedu Nketiah<br \/>The board member of Bui Dam<br \/>The supplier of blocks to Bui Dam<br \/>The wretched stomach politician<br \/>Adorned like a Korle mosquito<br \/>Who mocks his conflict of interest<br \/>Who pins his graft into our eyes<br \/>Who struts the NDC desert<br \/>To defame, demonize others<br \/>While hollow chest-thumping<br \/>To defame, demonize others<br \/>The thief criminalized Kufour<br \/>For mismanaging the Bui Dam<br \/>General Mosquito<\/p>\n<p>Mosquito Asiedu Nketiah<br \/>The thief without fat<br \/>He who hides all he steals<br \/>The mosquito from birth<br \/>The wretched housefly<br \/>Unlike fattened JJ Rawlings<br \/>Nketiah shows no gratitude<br \/>No gratitude for thievery<br \/>The fattened rich thief<br \/>Shows no fattened folds<br \/>Unlike JJ Rawlings<br \/>Not in his cheeks, chest<br \/>Not in his buttocks<br \/>Not in his stomach<\/p>\n<p>The John-son of NDC thievery<br \/>The blood-sucking mosquito<br \/>He who is not bulging<br \/>He who has no gratitude<br \/>He who doesn\u2019t bulge his thievery<br \/>He who doesn\u2019t show his thievery<br \/>The stomach politician<br \/>The greedy bastard<\/p>\n<p>NDC\u2019s unlettered scribe<br \/>The palm-wine tapper<br \/>With bulging eyes<br \/>Eyes buried in hollow sockets<br \/>The thief with a mosquito frame<\/p>\n<p>The Asiedu Nketiahs<br \/>The shallow thieves<br \/>The hollow thieves<br \/>Our gutter-ed watersheds<br \/>Of our traumatic history<br \/>Of our wretched existence<br \/>Of our painful past<br \/>Oh! The gullible masses<br \/>Preyed on by political vultures<br \/>Flea-ed by political lice<br \/>Fed on by political mosquitoes<br \/>Oh! Our postcolony<br \/>Of blood-sucking mosquitoes<br \/>Of elite exceptionalisms<br \/>Our fetishization of thievery<br \/>Our cheerleading thievery<br \/>Our architecture of no tomorrow<br \/>Our canonization of mediocrity<br \/>Our benumbing bastardies<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.peacefmonline.com\/features\/201102\/139099.php\" title=\"Asiedu Nketiah: The Bloody Mosquito Stomach Politician\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Asiedu Nketiah: The Bloody Mosquito Stomach Politician<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \u201c[Johnson Asiedu Nketiah], the General Secretary of the NDC has rejected conflict of interest allegations made against him over the construction of the Bui Dam project. He is also a member of the Board of the Bui Authority is said to be a major supplier of blocks used in the construction of the project, a practice the opposition New Patriotic Party has cited as potential conflict of interest situation\u2026 Fred Oware accused [Nketiah] of selling the blocks at a higher price which has consequently increased the total cost of the project. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Asiedu Nketiah: The Bloody Mosquito Stomach Politician - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/27\/asiedu-nketiah-the-bloody-mosquito-stomach-politician\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Asiedu Nketiah: The Bloody Mosquito Stomach Politician - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"\u201c[Johnson Asiedu Nketiah], the General Secretary of the NDC has rejected conflict of interest allegations made against him over the construction of the Bui Dam project. 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