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    CSO tasks govs on registration of pilgrims for 2025 Hajj

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    Concerned over the delay in announcing the commencement of pilgrims’ registration for the 2025 Hajj by some States’ Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Boards and Agencies, a faith-based Civil Society Organization, CSO, that reports and monitors Hajj and Umrah activities, the Independent Hajj Reporters, (IHR),
    has called on state governors to give priority to the pilgrimage issues in their respective states.

    The CSO, in a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Ibrahim Mohammed on Wednesday expressed concern that some states are yet to start registration even when they are expected to remit the first tranche of pilgrims’ deposits to the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON, starting from October 2, in accordance to the commission’s 2025 Hajj calendar for onward transfer to the Saudi-based service providers to pay for Tent spaces in Mina.

    “As at the time of penning this press statement, Niger, Sokoto and Borno States are yet to kick start the registration exercise despite having received the directive from the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) in August for states to begin registration.

    “We are aware that some Executive Secretaries of Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Boards are yet to submit the 2024 Hajj reports to their Governors and as a result of which they are yet to get approval to start pilgrims’ registration from their Chief Executives,” the group stated.




    It went further: “That the State’s Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Boards will need a separate approval from state governors to start pilgrims’ registration even after being given permission by the apex hajj regulatory body is a peculiar federating procedural headache for Hajj Industry that requires immediate solutions.”

    “It is necessary to note that the Saudi Ministry of Hajj had on 23rd October began allocating tent spaces to Hajj participating countries that had made payments.

    “Any Executive Secretary of State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board who has not submitted their 2024 Hajj report four months after 2024 Hajj should be removed and replaced with a more competent person.”

    The CSO reminded the state governors that the delay in starting pilgrims’ registration by States Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Boards is the underlying cause of poor services being experienced by Nigerian pilgrims yearly in Saudi Arabia.

    “Late registration gives birth to late remittances of pilgrims’ registration fund to NAHCON, which affects the commission’s inability to make payments to Saudi-based service providers as at when due to enable them to make adequate preparations to provide efficient services to our dear pilgrims.

    “State administrative bureaucracies are causing serious disruptions to the implementation of the Hajj calendar and something needs to be done to tinker with the NAHCON Establishment Act, 2006, to allow pilgrims from states to start early registration without having to wait for the approval of state chief executives.

    “Hajj is a global affair in which over 162 participating countries are expected to implement a uniform calendar released yearly as released by the Saudi Ministry of Hajj to serve as a guiding map for pre-Hajj preparations,” IHR noted.

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