Segun Awofadeji
14 November 2008
Bauchi — Pregnant Nigerian women who deliver in Saudi Arabia while performing the 2008 Hajj would not be allowed to return with their babies.
The babies would be retained as citizens by Saudi Arabia authorities. Bauchi State Amirul Hajj, Honourable Babayo Garba Gamawa, said this while briefing reporters on arrangements for this year's Hajj, at the Government House, Bauchi.
Gamawa, who is the Speaker, Bauchi State House of Assembly, also assured that the change of carriers from IRS and Air-Niamey to Kabo Air would not affect the airlift of intending pilgrims to and from Saudi Arabia as scheduled.
He announced that sub-committees have been set up to ensure a hitch free Hajj this year, adding that already, a very comfortable accommodation had been secured in Saudi for Bauchi pilgrims.
The various sub-committees, headed by prominent Muslim scholars, jurists, and political office holders with accumulated Hajj experience, have been approved by the state government.
Gamawa warned pilgrims not to make purchases that would result in excess luggage, adding that the air-carriers would not entertain such.
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Haba! The message is clear...Nigerian women, please do not come here with the intension to have your baby in Saudi and drain our health care system! I don't personanally think that is hard. Pregnant women, near their due dates, should please not attend Hajj until they have given birth elsewhere.
This can,t be true,we hope it,s a joke.Why should our children born in saudi arabia be left there to become saudis? and what,s so special about being saudi? nothing.If for one thing they(saudis and arabs) should know that we,ve not forgiven them for the evil they perpetrated in Africa and what they continue to perpetrate.If one may ask, where are all the Africans that where taken to the arab world as slaves,if they don,t give account of what happened to these lot of Africans why do we let them even have access to others? There are so many reasons we kick against this project,notably because it,s not new that the arabs are one of the most racist people on earth,yes, that,s true judging by their treatment of people of African descent over the ages.Is it true that male slaves are castrated to stop them ever being sexually active,that should rank as heinous and one that we should get answers to.When an African is arrested peddling drugs the the result is most probably beheading whilst when the European or American is caught he,s sent back to the home country for sentence.In a nutshell, the arabs have been as much complicit in the travails of the African as every other race of people.We detest these act of leaving behind African babies to become saudi citizens, and if we may ask, how many saudi babies are left behind in Africa,we must be wise and stop making fools of ourselves.They,ve stolen enough from Africa, why now begin to let them have our babies, the future of Africa is being sold once again for peanuts by those who have not a single sense of worth and decency in the discharge of their duties.The Federal govt must look into this and stop this madness,we don,t want our babies given out as gifts,and most importantly to a racially hostile and wicked bunch,no.