The Kano State government has released N789.5 million for the state Pilgrims Welfare Board for the successful conduct of 2016 Hajj operations.
Briefing journalists on the outcome of State Executive Council meeting held at Kano Government House on Wednesday, the state Commissioner of Information, Youth and Culture, Muhammad Garba, said the amount is meant for operational expenditure and other related logistics.
The commissioner remarked that as a result of the national austerity measures and devaluation of the naira, the state government had reduced its Hajj operation staff from 80 to 40 while supporting staff were scaled down from 175 to 99 personnel.
Mr. Garba also said henceforth, the state government would only sponsor four members of the board of the agency to Hajj as against the usual ten members for this year’s Hajj exercise.
Also affected by the rationalization in the state Hajj contingent, according to Mr. Garba, are “the medical team cut from from 21 to 13, Hajj training facilitators minimized to 10 from 21, Hajj Tribunal from 10 to 3, adding that the number of pressmen and Hisbah Guards was also reduced from 7 and 10 to five respectively”.
The commissioner further said that the council approved N56, 567,233 for the Ministry of Education to construct additional classrooms and hostels in five Tsangaya Model Schools, noting that the schools to benefit are at Doguwa, Tsanyawa, Dandishe, Garo and Harbau towns.
He said the programme was initiated by the immediate past federal government and continued by the present on.
The Commissioner also said that approval for N136, 558,100 for payment of outstanding balance in respect of students studying at American University, Yola Adamawa state, assuring parents and students that the Ganduje administration would not let the studies to be truncated either within or outside the country.

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Until the north divorce religion from governance, they will never develop.

What is the importance of hajj amidst poverty?Has kano workers being paid their salaries up to date?

789million for hajj ? We r just been used by dis people. Person wey no get money to go hajj no go sidon jejely for hin houz ?

So there is no pressing issue that this money can be used to solve in the whole of kano state?
Is a must to go to hajj? If u cant sponsor yourself,why not sit @ home and pray? Is there any difference in the prayer said in kano to the one said in Mecca?

Misplaced priorities

In this recession the idiots from the north are still spending money on hajj

Religion is personal why use state funds for non sense trips

These people are wonderful!

This is even more stupid than when the moon got missing

Misplaced priority.

Nigerian politicians know that the citizens are largely sentimental and docile when it comes to religion. They just drive everything through the easy runway of religion, simple.

Of course, Nigerians and religious irrationality are

Colossal waste just to go and throw stones!

See wastage and leakages in Buhari the frugal man government. .. To think that some Imams will see their own share....

What some of you ignorant dumbass, can't connect is that going to Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam. And In Muslim Society you cant separate religion from politics and normal day-to-day activities.
And for those asking whether Kano Civil servants have been paid, go check your fact. Kano State has never fail to paid it workers since it inauguration in May.
Stop comparing yourselves with Muslims, cos for Christians going to Jerusalem or Rome is nothing short of Tourism. And I dare all Christians here on Nairaland to show me a place in the Bible, where they are asked to go Jerusalem. Nigerian Christians, will always copy what the Muslims are doing. It okay thou.

Nasman:
What some of you ignorant dumbass, can't connect is that going to Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam. And In Muslim Society you cant separate religion from politics and normal day-to-day activities.
And for those asking whether Kano Civil servants have been paid, go check your fact. Kano State has never fail to paid it workers since it inauguration in May.
Stop comparing yourselves with Muslims, cos for Christians going to Jerusalem or Rome is nothing short of Tourism. And I dare all Christians here on Nairaland to show me a place in the Bible, where they are asked to go Jerusalem. Nigerian Christians, will always copy what the Muslims are doing. It okay thou.

Please who made going to Hajj one of the pillars of Islam? Arab doctrine of eternal bondage on Muslims.

Nasman:
What some of you ignorant dumbass, can't connect is that going to Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam. And In Muslim Society you cant separate religion from politics and normal day-to-day activities.
And for those asking whether Kano Civil servants have been paid, go check your fact. Kano State has never fail to paid it workers since it inauguration in May.
Stop comparing yourselves with Muslims, cos for Christians going to Jerusalem or Rome is nothing short of Tourism. And I dare all Christians here on Nairaland to show me a place in the Bible, where they are asked to go Jerusalem. Nigerian Christians, will always copy what the Muslims are doing. It okay thou.

my friend nobody is disputing hajj as a pillar of Islam , the outage is the use of government funds to sponsor pilgrimage which should be a personal issue between man and Allah SWT.

Nasman:
What some of you ignorant dumbass, can't connect is that going to Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam. And In Muslim Society you cant separate religion from politics and normal day-to-day activities.
And for those asking whether Kano Civil servants have been paid, go check your fact. Kano State has never fail to paid it workers since it inauguration in May.
Stop comparing yourselves with Muslims, cos for Christians going to Jerusalem or Rome is nothing short of Tourism. And I dare all Christians here on Nairaland to show me a place in the Bible, where they are asked to go Jerusalem. Nigerian Christians, will always copy what the Muslims are doing. It okay thou.

Did Allah tell you in the Quran that Government shud used state funds for Hajj?

.

Cows, forever thinking backwards.

We hope they find oil soon, just so they can move the entire Northerners to go reside in Saudi Arabia if they want.

And their people are starving to death in IDP camps.

Government should stop sponsoring pilgrimages of any religion.

Nasman:
What some of you ignorant dumbass, can't connect is that going to Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam. And In Muslim Society you cant separate religion from politics and normal day-to-day activities.
And for those asking whether Kano Civil servants have been paid, go check your fact. Kano State has never fail to paid it workers since it inauguration in May.
Stop comparing yourselves with Muslims, cos for Christians going to Jerusalem or Rome is nothing short of Tourism. And I dare all Christians here on Nairaland to show me a place in the Bible, where they are asked to go Jerusalem. Nigerian Christians, will always copy what the Muslims are doing. It okay thou.

going to hajj is with condition, if one can afford the cost. no rule that say you must used peolpe(govt) money for hajj, check other muslim nations