The executive secretary of Gombe State Muslims Pilgrims Welfare Board, Alhaji Saad Hassan Adamu, has expressed deep concern over the high number of aging and
Adamu said with the enormous crowds of worshippers thronging the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for this year’s Hajj pilgrimage amid scorching heat weather, sending incapacitated and ailing parents to perform Hajj without guardians was a high level of insincerity and dishonesty any one can think of.
He said the children of the aging and ailing pilgrims purposely sent their incapacitated parents to come to Hajj in defiance of the State Pilgrims Welfare Board rules just to ridicule or the officials. He said the affected pilgrims shun all invitations sent out to all intending pilgrims in Gombe to come for medical screening in order to keep their physical health status away from the officials.
We have problems of aging and ailment pilgrims from Gombe State and there are serious issues for us as a board and officials. The affected pilgrims deliberately hid their physical status from us until we came here. “It was their children that purchased Hajj tickets for them and when we invited them for medical screening, they refused to bring them.
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