Ghana-based Liberian Afropop artiste, Jonathan Lee Pratt, known by his stage name JZyNo has advised the youth to stay away from activities that will bring violence as the country prepares for the December polls.
According to him, violence breeds war and hardship and its effect is disastrous.
Speaking in an interview with Max Morning Show in Accra on Wednesday, the multiple award-winning artiste said Ghana should learn a lesson from the Liberian war to continue to maintain the peace and harmony it is currently enjoying.
“Forget protest: when you see people protesting, go inside and relax yourself. Don’t join because the more the numbers, the worse it gets,” he noted.
JZyNO stated that protest was a moment when the opposition sent in rebels and bad people to initiate violence and one wouldn’t know how things would escalate to war, hence his advice.
Using his traumatic childhood experience to shed light on how war could hinder development, he observed that war retrogressed a nation, and everything that the nation had toiled for could be wiped out within a blink of an eye, which would take many years to restore.
JZyNO said a country did not have to go through such a stage before protecting everything that it had gained to forge ahead.
He further stated that he witnessed hardship when he was 11 to 12 years old, the days that Liberia saw its final war where hunger, violence, death, and shootings took centre stage in his country.
