Lagos State Pilgrims Welfare Board has concluded arrangements for the return trips of the 1,869 pilgrims
that performed this year’s Holy pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia through the state.
The Amir-ul-Hajj and Hon. Commissioner for Home Affairs, Hon. Olanrewaju Ibrahim Layode, made this known during an engagement with the pilgrims in Makkah.
Layode said that a total of 188 pilgrims comprising the elders, those with health issues, and the ‘Lagos International Pilgrims’ from USA and Europe, would depart on Sunday, June 23, on the same flight with Kebbi State pilgrims.
He, however, said that the full flight of the state pilgrims would continue on Monday, June 24 with the second batch, noting that this would run on a “first-in, first-out basis.”
The Amir-ul-Hajj asserted this meant that”there would not be preferential treatment for any pilgrims, except if the occasion warrants it,” adding that the status quo ante would remain until the last batch of pilgrims were airlifted back home.
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