2019 Hajj: NAHCON Says 34, 002 Pilgrims Back Home In 70 Flights - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 6, 2019
The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON has so fartransported about thirty four thousand pilgrims back home in seventy flightsfrom the kingdom of Saudi Arabia after successful completion of their 2019 hajjexercise.
According to its command and control centre in Makkah, thelatest returnees were five hundred and fifty pilgrims from Adamawa state andtwo officials of NAHCON.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Hajj and Umrah affairs andNAHCON has coordinated efforts and evacuate over eight hundred pilgrimsstranded were transported to Makkah by a private tour operator from JeddahAirport.
The private pilgrims stormed NAHCON office in Makkah andsubmitted a petition against their service providers and the airline that wassupposed to convey them back home after the completion of Hajj rites.
A pilgrim, Zaharadden Usman alleged that they were promisedin their contractual packages with the various private travel agencies thattheir maximum days of stay in Saudi Arabia will be sixteen.