By correspondent in Lokoja.
All the seven hundred and nineteen (719) pilgrims from Kogi State for this year’s Hajj(1444H/2023 HAJJ), have returned home safely.
The state’s AmiruHajj for the exercise,Alhaji Zakariya Abubakar Aliyu, disclosed this in a statement he sent to The Reporters in Lokoja on Sunday
According to him,the batch arrived on Saturday morning 15th July, 2023 while the second batch arrived on Sunday morning, 16th July, 2023.
“They have all successfully left for their homes to await the collection of their big luggage,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Executive Chairman of the Commission Sheikh Luqman Imam Abdullahi has directed that all the pilgrims’ big luggage should be conveyed to Lokoja.
The Commission’s Director of Administration. Alhaji Hussain Obadaki, is coordinating the evacuation exercise.
This is to alleviate the pilgrims of the herculean challenges of collecting the luggage in Abuja.
The date for the collection will be communicated to the pilgrims as soon as all have been conveyed here.
The officials of the Commission heartily congratulate the pilgrims and the entire people of the State for this year’s successful Hajj and pray it to be an acceptable one,the director said.
Edited by Dada Ahmed.
