Alhaji AbdulSalam Abdulkadir, the agency’s executive secretary, made this known during a sensitisation programme held for the intending pilgrims, said the affected persons were those who could not complete the additional N1.9million added to the hajj fare.
The Kwara State Pilgrims Welfare Board has said that no fewer than 100 intending pilgrims from the state will miss this year’s Hajj exercise.
Alhaji AbdulSalam Abdulkadir, the agency’s executive secretary, made this known during a sensitisation programme held for the intending pilgrims, said the affected persons were those who could not complete the additional N1.9million added to the hajj fare.
“95 per cent of the intending pilgrims this year are first-timers. However, we have over 100 outstanding pilgrims who could not make the additional payment of N1.9 million,” he was quoted by The Informant247.
SaharaReporters had also reported how Nigerian Muslim pilgrims who had earlier paid for a trip to Saudi Arabia for the 2024 Hajj started demanding for a refund after the country’s Hajj Commission instructed them to pay another N1.9million.
Recall that the commission on Sunday increased the fare for this year’s pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia by N1,918,032.91 while setting a deadline of March 28, 2024.
It had in December 2023 fixed a fare of N4.9million per pilgrim based on an exchange rate of N897 to a dollar.