TOLERANCE PRECEDES PEACE

If a war seeks to kill to rule,
If soldiers would fight for reasons unexplained,
Sever throats of men and not the problems of men;
When the goal for the fight is to eliminate some to rule some,
It tends to baffle my uneducated thoughts that loves PEACE.

PEACE like freedom has never been valued by any man who had it until it is finally lost.

We want no story line for a 'Hotel Ghana' documentary because "Hotel Rwanda" wasn't a beautiful piece for the lovers of PEACE

Convince me to accept your product (idea)
Don't kill me because your idea of who's to rule is at odds with mine.

How sure is the gun wielder he'd shoot down the enemy before he breathes the last?
What if the bullet travels to meet your cohort's skull?
What if another fires the head that thinks slaying bodies is the path to victory?

At rifle-wielding wars, nobody knows the victor till the war is done. You might be unlucky cos you too have an Achilles Heel though.

Though your guns breath out the air of death, don't get too confident, because you are mortal too.

No king lives in a vacuum.
Don't destroy the subjects before assuming the throne.
Sell better ideas and our discerning selves would buy the best.
Seek to win us, not to kill us,
Because a king rules the living, not the dead.
Dead men don't serve the king.

Location: Kumasi, Ghana

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