 The Kagoro community in southern Kadurna have come together to celebrate URFAN National Festival 2024 to promote cultural diversity, foster lasting peace, mutual understanding, religious tolerance and harmonious relationship by uniting the people with strong sense of unity in Kagoro chiefdom and entire Kadurna state. For over four decades, every year in Kagoro land, people from different walks of life and diaspora convict to celebrate their rich cultural heritage, traditional attire, cultural dance, display and cuisine. In recent years, southern Kadurna people have become victims of ethnic and religious attacks that holds the honor of celebration. The country director of Global Peace Foundation, Nigeria, Reverend Dr. Joseph Hayab says the absence of peace destroy every sphere of human lives, stressing the need to give peace a chance to thrive in Kadurna state and Nigeria. We are having this massive crowd meeting here to celebrate their festival. It shows you the importance of peace. It shows you why people should make every sacrifice to have peace because peace, the absence of peace destroy everything that human being would love to have. People are out in their different attire, in their different cultural display, dancing, celebrating, rejoicing, what they've not done in the past three or four years. So to us at Global Peace we find this quite important and it is a commitment, it is a challenge that we have to do more to encourage active people working for peace in every community in southern Kadurna, in Kadurna state and in every part of Nigeria. We are calling on Nigerians to give peace a chance. The killings is not good enough. The whole thing we are doing is not good. Why must we continue to allow fellow citizens being killed, homes being destroyed? So as civil society we do our best to promote peace. We are appealing to government to also do more in ensuring that the people are secure. We should seek a fundamental way that our society should address the causes and the drivers of conflict that were face escalation of conflict and how we find a way that we continuously prevent and stop conflict that will lead to destruction in our society. This peace we are looking for is a shared responsibility between the government and the community. The community cannot do it alone. They need the support of government. All what we need to have is an integrated passion mainstreaming on how we can survive and how we can protect. And also Global Peace Foundation Nigeria empowers both Christian and Muslim women in the communities with cash for self-reliance, lamenting that poverty and joblessness promote violence and crimes in society. Agenol to eschew violence and religious differences and promote coexistence and harmonious relationships in southern Kaduna. Nigeria today we have over 87 million people who are valuing and object poverty. If we are able to eradicate or even alleviate poverty, many crimes that are being committed today in Nigeria will be drastically reduced. So we shall visit as many as we can. You understand we are doing according to effort and we know the Almighty God will intervene so that we can reach out to many communities, not only in Kaduna State, not only in northern Nigeria but in Nigeria as a whole. Once poverty is alleviated or even eradicated, crime commission will drastically reduce it in this country. Kagoro people are peaceful people. But violence has been visited on the people of Kagoro and they have maintained their candle by sustaining the peace and ensuring that they don't retaliate or react to what has been visited on them. So my charge is that all communities in southern Kaduna should continue to maintain peace in their communities and ensure that even if they are provoked there are measures that they can take to report whatever it is that is visited on them. And we are also charging the security agencies to ensure that there is fairness, justice and equity. We are not asking for anything extra, just that we should be allowed to breathe and live.