 A group, Partnership for Issue-Based Complaints in Nigeria, Pikan, in collaboration with Legal Awareness for Nigerian Women and Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn has organized a one-day agenda-setting dialogue with political candidates and CSOs ahead of the 2023 general elections underneath the Tackling Security and Revive the Educational Sector in the state. Plus, TV News correspondent Habila Darifi filed in this report. The convener of the group, Joseph Gouge, stated that the aim is for political candidates to interact with CSOs, to see to having a conducive atmosphere for the citizens and to foster ways of peaceful campaigns during the elections. Aside from what is insecurity, the State Government's second quarter security report showed that in just these two quarters, about 645 people were killed as a result of mandatory and other immunalities within the state. And this is more than half of what were the number in 2021. So it means that this is an issue that we need to look at. On employment and on the employment, 67%. And this is also a huge, huge challenge for especially young people. Speaking, Kaduna Deputy Governorship Candidate of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, John Ayuba, promised to ensure job security, especially that of teachers in the state and also ruled out strategies to ensure the safety of lives and properties of every citizen. Security agenda will be community-based. You see, if you look at the distances between the points where the current security operatives are and where incidents take place, the distance is too much. It's too long. And if you look, the roads are not good. So for them to get there, a lot of havoc has already been done. The Labour Party candidate, Honourable Jonathan Asake, on his own part, said that a spate of insecurity in the state has extended to the entire country and promised to make dealing with insecurity his topmost agenda if he emerges the winner of the 2023 election. Redemption Party Governorship Candidate Hayatu Dean Makarfi stated that the core areas of priority would be social justice, economic skills, and education. I've done it this way so that it is easy for us in the course of administering some of these areas because first, we understand that the reason why people feel disgruntled or feel disenfranchised or feel marginalised is as a result of the decay or failure of the social justice system. Inattendance at the event where all governorship candidates, people living with disabilities, PWDs, civil society organizations, and electorates, among others.