Ibrahim Habu
3 November 2009
Chairman, Zamfara State Pilgrims Welfare Board, Alhaji Ibrahim Mallaha has promised a hitch-free Hajj operation for all intending pilgrims to Mecca during this year's hajj.
Mallaha said government had put in place adequate arrangements for pilgrims, accommodation and medical care in the Holy land.
Speaking to newsmen in his office last weekend, Mallaha said there was proper arrangement by the board to avoid abscondment.
While urging the intending pilgrims to come for proper screening.
Mallaha said the exercise was to ensure that only qualified Muslims who are Zamfara indigenes travel for the pilgrimage.
He, then, appealed to the intending pilgrims to pay their traveling fees on time, adding that the delay in payment by pilgrims has been responsible for inadequate arrangement in the previous operations.
Mallaha also reminded Muslims that Holy pilgrimage was one of the five pillars of Islam and compulsory for Muslims who could afford it, while Umrah could be performed only once in a life time.
Meanwhile, the state government has given free Hajj seats to five persons who survived an auto accident in Saudi Arabia during the 2008 pilgrimage.
The beneficiaries are Abdulhadi Illyasu, Safiya Abdulmalik, Ubaida Kabir, Luba Suleiman and Garba Aliyu.
Shinkafi said the assistance was to enable them repeat the exercise as they missed the Arafat and other essential Hajj rites due to the accident.
He also advised the intending pilgrims to seek scholars' advice where they had problems to make their Hajj acceptable to God.
The governor urged the pilgrims to be good ambassadors of the state by complying with the rules and regulations the Saudi authorities.
Governor Mahmud Shinkafi of Zamfara State said this while addressing intending pilgrims for the 2009 Hajj. It 10 Zamfara pilgrims died in the accident while five others sustained injuries last year.
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