RELIGION: HAJJ COMMISSION SETS FRIDAY AS DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF STATES PILGRIMS LIST
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The State Pigrims’ Welfare Boards have been instructed by the Nigerian National Hajj Commission to complete the uploading of data to the e-Track Portal and sorting of aspiring pilgrims into groups of forty-five people each by Friday at the latest.
According to the commission, the directive was made to make sure that visas were granted easily and in accordance with Saudi authorities’ orders requiring pilgrims to travel in groups of forty-five. It further stated that visas would only be issued once pilgrims had completed a group of forty-five.
This was said in a statement on Monday that was signed by Mousa Ubandawaki, the deputy director of NAHCON’s information and publications division.
The commission previously revealed that 51,477 potential pilgrims who paid in full for the 2024 Hajj exercise under the government quota were the official number of registered pilgrims.
This came after 48,414 pilgrims who had previously paid the N4.9 million fare were told they would also need to pay an extra N1.9 million due to “the current foreign exchange rate.”
Ubandawaki said in his statement that pilgrims who wanted to be grouped should contact their respective state welfare boards to make sure they were all enrolled in a single group of forty-five. The groups will handle all Hajj-related operations collectively, such as lodging and travel.
“The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) wishes to advise State Pilgrims’ Welfare Boards, Commissions, and Agencies to conclude the grouping of pilgrims into groups of 45 and conclude data upload to the e-Track Portal by Friday 26th, 2024.
Additionally, as this is the only way to make arrangements to travel with people of your choosing, NAHCON is urging those pilgrims who would like to travel in desired groups to meet with their individual State Pilgrims’ Welfare Boards to form such groups.
Notably, these groups of forty-five will always carry out their Hajj activities in unison, including leaving Nigeria, lodging and travelling in both Makkah and Madinah, participating in Masha’ir activities, and returning to Nigeria, the announcement stated in part.
Additionally, the committee noted that the directive constituted the “last chance” granted by the Saudi authorities to make travel arrangements for group tours in support of the Hajj operations.
The statement went on to say that “pilgrims will remain confined with their selected group members whose visas will appear together” after the deadline passes.
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