 A group, partnership for issue-based campaigns in Nigeria, PECAN, in collaboration with Legal Awareness for Nigerian Women, LONG, and a partnership to engage reform and learn. Pearl has organised a one-day agenda-setting dialogue with political candidates and CSOs that are head of the 2023 General Elections on the need to tackle insecurity and revive the educational sector in the country. Plus, the news from Habila, Daru Fai, fired on this report, as presented from us today. The convener of the group, Joseph Gorge, 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 for peaceful campaigns during the elections. About 645 people were killed as a result of mandatory and other criminalities within the state. And this is more than half of what were the number in 2021. 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 People's Democratic Party, PDP John Ayuba promised to ensure job security, especially that of teachers in the state, and also rolled out strategies to ensure the safety of lives and properties of every citizen. The distances between the points where the current security operatives are and where incidents take place, the distance is too much, the roads are not good, so for them to get there, a lot of hard work has already been done. So we want our program of security to be based on communities and it will be in terms of empowering the communities to be at least the first line of resistance. The Labour Party candidate, Honourable Jonathan Asaké, on his own part, said that the rate of insecurity in the state has extended to the entire country and promised to make dealing with insecurity his top most agenda if he emerges the winner of the 2023 election. Without security, virtually everything comes to a standstill. You can see presently in Kaduna state, businesses are falling off, investors are taking their flight out of the state and in fact, even out of the country, small and medium businesses are closed down and schools, which are mostly in the rural communities and in the suburbs of the city have closed down. Also speaking, the People's Redemption Party, the PRP governorship candidate, Hayatuddin McCarthy, stated that the core areas of priority will be social justice, economic skills and education. The reason why people feel disgruntled or feel disenfranchised or feel marginalized is as a result of the decay or failure of the social justice system and there are so many areas that we want to look into in terms of how we decongest the prisons and the administration of justice in the courts. In attendance at the event where all governorship candidates, people living with disabilities, PWDs, civil society organizations and electorate, among others. You get notified about fresh news updates.