Lagos State Pilgrims Welfare Board has disclosed that it has concluded arrangements to commence airlifting of the 1,869 pilgrims that performed this year’s Holy pilgrimage through the state from today.
Amir-ul-Hajj and commissioner for Home Affairs, Hon Olanrewaju Ibrahim Layode stated this during an engagement with the pilgrims in Makkah.
He said that 188 pilgrims comprising the elders, those with health issues and the ‘Lagos International Pilgrims’ from USA and Europe would depart today on the same flight with Kebbi State pilgrims.
Layode stressed that the full flight of the state would continue tomorrow with the second batch and this would run on ‘first-in, first-out’ basis “which means that there would not be preferential treatment for any pilgrims, except if the occasion warrants it,” he said.
He added that the status quo ante would remain until the last batch of pilgrims are airlifted back home.
