By Mohammed Nasir Shuaibu (Bauchi correspondent)
The Bauchi State Government said all is ready to commence the airlifting of 3, 132 (three thousand one hundred and thirty two) approved slots of the intending pilgrims for this year's Hajj in the State.
The Director of Operations in the Commission, Mohammed Sabiu Barau, stated this in an exclusive interview with NIGERIAN NEWSLEADER Newspaper Correspondent in Bauchi. He noted that the Commission has secured one hundred additional seats for the pilgrimage.
According to him, the Commission is fully ready and all machinery have been set in motion and government has appointed the supervisory team, and officials have also been appointed at all levels of the Hajj administration in the state.
He disclosed that the Hajj Camp is ready to receive the pilgrims, and that the airport is also ready to commence operation. He added that as already scheduled by the National Hajj Commission (NAHCON), if all things go equal by Sunday, 28th of this month (May 2023),the first flight for the pilgrimage exercise will depart from Bauchi to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Bara'u further disclosed that the Commission had received all full supply of luggages and hand bags, and the Commission has just commenced distributions of items to the intending pilgrims.
He also explained that the Commission had decentralized the vaccination centers to ease the suffering of the intending pilgrims to close hospitals in their local government area councils and the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Teaching Hospital (ATBU-TH), Bauchi State.
Barau, however, called on all the intending pilgrims to ensure compliance with the Covid-19 protocol and cooperate with the Hajj officials in Nigeria and in Saudi Arabia, to avoid violating the travel rules so as to achieve the desired goals during the Hajj Operations. NNL.
