The Kwara Pilgrims Welfare Board has warned intending pilgrims for the 2017 Hajj from Kaiama and Baruten Local Government Areas of Kwara against engaging in drug trafficking while in Saudi Arabia.
The Executive Secretary of the board, Alhaji Mohammed Tunde-Jimoh, gave the warning on Sunday while addressing intending pilgrims from the two local government in Kaiama, headquarters of Kaiama Local Government Area of the state.
Tunde-Jimoh also urged the intending pilgrims to shun other negative tendencies capable of bringing the name of the state into disrepute while in the holy land.
” You should be good ambassadors of Kwara right from your domain here while shunning acts inimical to our state of harmony,’’ he said.
He assured the pilgrims that decent accommodation had been arranged for them in Makkah and Medinnah for their comfort.
The scribe, however, warned pilgrims against paying the balance of their Hajj fares to any agent, stressing that the board had not designated any individual or group to collect fares.
Tunde-Jimoh had earlier paid a courtesy call on the Emir of Kaiama, Alhaji Muazu Shehu-Omar, who expressed delight that the board brought the sensitisation programme to his domain for the first time.
The monarch said the action of the board had given the people of Kwara North Senatorial District a sense of belonging.
A total of 2,168 pilgrims and 20 officials are involved in this year’s Hajj exercise from Kwara. (NAN)
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