 Country Director, Global Peace Nigeria, and Chairman Khan Kaduna State, Reverend Joseph Hayab, has appealed to insurgents, bandits and kidnappers to shoot their sword and embrace peace for the interests of the country. Joseph Hayab made a call during the 2021 International Peace Day Walk and lecture, organized by Course 3, PhD, Peace and Conflict Studies, Nasarawa State University, Kefi, on Tuesday. There is strength in diversity, but over time we find people who are trying to manipulate. And I'm using that manipulation in a very classic sense. What they think is just manipulating. The referendum can be misled, the above can be misled. There is no problem. I didn't decide to be outside of open. But you find that simply because of economic and political agenda. So we did stop taking into dividing our people and causing a lot of crisis for us. As we mark this International Peace Day, let's not just talk about it with our mouth. Let's take proactive action to see that peace return to Nigeria, that all this killing stops. Government, we know that have the capability to address insecurity. Please live to your responsibility. Don't allow selfish people to kill fellow citizens just like that and go scot-free. Anybody who shits innocent blood, anybody who kills another Nigeria must not go scot-free. We want peace and we want to dialogue to find peace. But there must be justice in handling peace matters. It will be foolhardy to fold our arms and say, because of banditry we will not try. We will have to give it, we will continue to try. We will not give the enemies of the state the free ride they want. Call them bandits, call them any name. Our concern here is to say that there is no alternative to peace. We will continue to strive for peace. We will gather the stakeholders, we will continue to dialogue and do all that will help us attain and achieve this peace in our country. Joining us live to discuss World Peace Day is Ijeoma Pearl Okoro, past District Rotary International District 9141. Hello Ijeoma. Good evening my dear, good evening. Good evening ma'am. I'm at the World Peace Day. Same to you, how are you? I'm trying thank you, good to see you on a peaceful day like this. Thank you. So how can we get Nigeria back on the track of peace? My dear, it's all inclusiveness. The guy marching on the street did say the quest to have a peace with Nigeria is actually not a task that should be left to government alone. It requires inclusiveness. It requires a participation of all stakeholders. And that is why in Rotary International we strive to ensure that all the activities and projects that we do actually tend towards maintaining peace and order in our society. Rotary carries out projects and interventions that actually address the ills in the society. We do that through about four different ways through our members whose daily projects and services whether we are doing projects on maternal and child care whether we are actually creating sustainability for the environment or even whether we are promoting literacy it's all geared towards ensuring that people live together. People have a peaceful coexistence. I mean through the Rotary Peace Centers that trains over 1,300 people annually, about 100 people but I mean it's all about 1,300 people in the world. We try to ensure that we keep professionals scattered all over the country all over the world who actually gather together in peace centers and are trained to at the end of their fellowship programs they go back to the environment to actually continue the peace making moves. Yeah, Nigerians are just staying with that first question on how to bring Nigeria back to the track of peace. Nigerians are presently generally discouraged. How can our leaders revive the Nigerian spirit of brotherhood? First of all, for us here, what Nigerians, what the citizens of Nigeria what they require is a self-belonging. We are living in a situation where almost a lot of people have actually lost hope. They are actually not sure of what tomorrow will bring. They are living in a world of uncertainty, breakout of law and order and things that are actually extraordinary happen. So for us the government actually needs to reassure through the activities of government to ensure the citizenry that there is hope that whatever that is not going on well can actually be re-arranged. People need to trust themselves. They need to trust the government. They need to trust the environment. It's an all-inclusive thing, like I said earlier. It's not just the government that is going to help us to get there. Every one of us need to be part of it. But what we require is trust. When it's a situation where it looks as if most people have lost trust in our system and once that trust is re-established, there is proper dialogue. There is proper communication between people and people believing in government and government believes in them. Then the idea of restoring peace to this mission will become a reality. Is equity still possible in Nigeria? You think how can it be achieved? Oh yes. I talked about inclusiveness. Equity is still possible. A situation where people feel some are included and some are not included. Some are favored and some are not favored. It is a thing of the mind. We need to begin to do things that show that all of us belong to the same one Nigeria. We all have equal rights. We have equal rights, access to water, access to food, access to good governance, access to proper security and all that. It's all inclusive. It all borders in inclusiveness. Once everybody is involved and everybody is meant to feel alike, to feel the same, to feel that what matters in the north matters in the east and what matters in the west also matters in the south. Then we can all come to a proper round table and begin to correct the things that are wrong in our society. Everybody needs to get involved. We need to reenact the peace, the trust that was shared as an issue. Well, we look forward to that day when Nigeria will become truly one like it used to be. It definitely will become one. It definitely will and it requires each and every one of us to make it happen. And I'm committed to it. Same way, Ruth is committed to it. And I'm sure my dear, you're committed to it too. Oh, I am. Thank you so much, Ijama Pearl Okoro. You are the past District Rotary International District 9141. Yeah, thank you. Thank you so much for your time.