Over 95,000 Nigerian pilgrims were moved to the Mina Valley to officially commence the 2023 hajj on Monday.
However, thousands of the pilgrims could not get bed spaces in the camp due to the inability of the authorities to put the proper logistics in place.
“The arrangement was somehow disappointing,” Opatola Abolade, a pilgrim from Oyo State, South-west Nigeria, lamented to PREMIUM TIMES. The stay in Mina is a mandatory part of the exercise. Pilgrims must spend the night in the camp before proceeding to Arafat on Tuesday and when they are done at Muzdelifah, they will return to the camp on Wednesday.Speaking with journalists, the Chairman of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria , Zikrullah Hassan, said the Saudi government failed to deliver on its promise of handling the entire stay in Mina.
He said the authorities promised to deliver after forcing the commission to pay “non-negotiable” fees for the services.“It is also clear that the food is not adequate and it has not been timely. The tent is the exclusive preserve of the government of Saudi Arabia. We have no way to expand or contract it. But we had an understanding that the tent was enough for us. I must say that we are very disappointed because quite a number of pilgrims were allowed to stay outside the tent.
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