Daily Trust (Abuja)
Nasir Imam
1 November 2009
Abuja — The FCT Administration has said it will provide free meal at Muna/Arafat in Saudi Arabia for all the pilgrims in the FCT Contingent that are performing this year's pilgrimage.
FCT Minister, Senator Muhammad Adamu Aliero made this disclosure at the weekend while receiving the Amirul Hajj and Head of Federal Government delegation to this year's Muslim Pilgrimage, Senator Kanti Bello, who paid him a working visit at his office.
The minister said he would personally be in Saudi Arabia to give moral support to the FCT contingent and supervise the entire exercise, adding that FCT cannot afford to fail.
According to him, everything needed to make the spiritual exercise hitch free have been put on ground and that there are contingency plans to handle any emergency.
Aliero disclosed further that the FCT Administration would not condone any act of indiscipline by its pilgrims in the Holy Land and charged them to abide by the rule and laws of the Saudi government.
Speaking earlier, the Amirul Hajj and Head of the Federal Government Delegation, Senator Kanti Bello assured that this year's hajj would be a memorable one for all Nigerian pilgrims, as everything is on ground to make it hitch free.
Senator Bello also assured that all the pilgrims will know when to return back to the country as the committee has developed a manifest to ensure that this time around it is first come, first serve, irrespective of one's class or social status or standing in the society.
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