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Pilgrims pay the Federal Government, through the National Hajj Commission (NAHCON) for their pilgrimage.

The government's role (through the National Hajj Commission and the National Christian Pilgrimage Commission) is to receive money from pilgrims and help them organise the pilgrimage. The government helps the pilgrims to negotiate with airlines and get a good deal (discounts, etc), but the airfare is paid by the pilgrims. The government provides consular services to ensure that the registered pilgrims can enter the Holy Lands and that they are safe there, etc. but the cost of the pilgrimage is borne by the pilgrims.

The National Hajj Commission has set a deadline of December 5th for pilgrims to pay for the pilgrimage, but the Kebbi State Government says that some of its citizens will not be able to pay by that date and so it is giving them a loan, that is, it will pay on their behalf and then they can repay the state government later.

This has sparked a debate among northerners on social media.




Bashir El-Rufai BashirElRufai

The Kebbi State Government just approved 10,000,000,000 (10BN) solely for the sponsorship & assistance for Hajj Pilgrimage activities.

Again, and we wonder why these guys think we are a very stu pid set of citizens in the North.

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Mahdi Shehu @shehu_mahdi

N 10 BILLION LOAN FOR KEBBI STATE PILGRIMS.

The intending pilgrims will do better to perform one of the Hajj rituals - STONING THE DEVIL, by Stoning the person deceiving them with the Hajj loan who qualifies as the " BIGGER DEVIL"

They just deploy religious sentiment to hoodwink se nile people, the same people who can't afford to eat are given loans to go for pilgrimage. This is simply da ftly.

This is in a state where ravaging poverty is @75%, with over 2 million out of school children, dilapidated Hospitals and schools, poor township and feeder roads, lacking clean drinking water, unpaid gratuities, youth unemployment, children learning on the floor, no drugs, collapsed primary health centers etc etc.

This is pure m adness and illiteracy.

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Sani Ahmad Kaitafi @KaitafiS

Same country people collect loans to gamble and build failed businesses. NAHCON has closed collections of fees, so many intending pilgrims have made deposits and would lose d chance of going to hajj, Gov. wades and gives a loan which will b paid back by pilgrims. What’s d issue?

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Love thy nation, speak well to it @OLABIM

Hajj is not a necessity. Almighty Allah put a fundamental clause to it as well. IF YOU CAN AFFORD IT AND IN GOOD HEALTH. You are making a mockery of Islam this way. Millions of children will go hungry in the same state with nowhere to sleep, and we think this is the way?

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Abdallah Gumel @super_haqq

The issue is how is Hajj a better priority to children's education who without it can end up being bandits tomorrow. How important is Hajj compare to jobs those funds can create to liberate idle youth from being used by the devils workshop. Haba Hon. Where is this coming from?.

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Previous thread;

Kebbi Govt Approve N10bn Loan To Secure 1,300 Additional Hajj Seats For Intendin
https://www.nairaland.com/8577171/kebbi-govt-approve-n10bn-loan

naptu2:
Previous thread;

Kebbi Govt Approve N10bn Loan To Secure 1,300 Additional Hajj Seats For Intendin
https://www.nairaland.com/8577171/kebbi-govt-approve-n10bn-loan

This is what they are expending their own share of the windfall on after the FG removed petrol subsidy. Smh.


That Governor is planning to embark on pilgrimage to jail after office because many of the beneficiaries of the loan will not pay back the hajj loan.

As in , people can go on pilgrimage on credit(gbese) ? Wonders shall never end. Pathetic!

All I can see is misplaced priority!

Backward people. What has Islam done for you guys that you love it so much? Without our oil and resources in the South, you guys would be worse than Chad and Niger (fellow Islamic countries), so I ask in ALL honesty, what exactly has Islam done for Northern Nigerians or Moslems?

They all made sense one way or the other..

I'm so disappointed at that kebbi governor it's a very disgraceful situation in a state on the news for insecurity, killings and abductions is busy about Hajj and Fridges.

Very very shameful..

algomachine:
Backward people. What has Islam done for you guys that you love it so much? Without our oil and resources in the South, you guys would be worse than Chad and Niger (fellow Islamic countries), so I ask in ALL honesty, what exactly has Islam done for Northern Nigerians or Moslems?

You are so blind that you can't see it even if a Doctoral Thesis is written about the benefits of Islam and being Muslims. You wont see it still.

Huge waste of resources.

True fedralism will put an end to this nonsense.

Honestly we need to prioritize our lives in this country.. there are things Govt should take a backseat from, Govt and Religion should not mix. Provide Good Governance,basic Amenities and all necessary things and see how this foreign"Tourism" will dwindle down a Notch... Well,Kebbi Govt knows more than we do,so no need to cry more than the Bereaved here!!

Different strokes for different folks. Different priority for different people. Obviously, a visit to another country in the name of pilgrimage is more important than having their children educated or learn in a conductive environment.

If not that these neglected children may end up constituting security problem tomorrow, I would have said "their problem, not mine.'

WHY WOULD HE NOT
A SYSTEM WHERE GOVERNORS JUST RECEIVE ALLOCATIONS & BORROW LOANS WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY TO ANYONE WOULD CONTINUE TO BREED THESE TYPES OF WICKED WHITE ELEPHANT PROJECTS WHICH IS A COMMON FEATURE OF NIGERIA'S BRAND OF DEMOCRACY.



NIGERIA MUST BE RESTRUCTURED.

GOVERNANCE MUST BE DEVOLVED TO BE PART TIME JOB.

REQUISITE QUALIFICATION MUST BE UPGRADED TO FIRST DEGREE FOR GOVERNORS, SENATORS, REPS, & PRESIDENT.

JOB SPECIFICATIONS MUST BE ENSHRINED IN THE CONSTITUTION. MANY OF THESE PEOPLE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY THEY ARE IN THESE POSITIONS.

CAN KEBBI STATE GENERATE THIS AMOUNT MONTHLY BECAUSE THIS SO-CALLED LOAN IS NOTHING BUT TRAVEL SUPPORT FOR THE RECEIVERS

Islam is more important than worldly things like State affairs.

That why Muslims want sharia, as to address situations like this more islamically.

It's Blasphemous to think a pilgrimage to mecca isn't more important than worldly state development.

Backward nation, you wonder while things are the way it's in the country. Government can provide loan for pilgrimage but can not provide loan for business people

Wasteful country. Why can't someone in Nigeria also create a religion, let it go viral so that other countries will be touring our country like this? If we can't invent technology that will be well sought after by other countries, then at least we can invent a good religion, far better than Xtianity and Islam which can bring future people to our land for pilgrimage. But no, African follow follow is like City and Arsenal in the EPL title race

In a democracy there is no issue with the people deciding how their own revenues and taxes are spent. If they want subsidies so be it.

However such decisions should be by popular advocacy not a government imposition. When the liability is borne by the people they themselves will find the route to compensating for other underfed sectors.

What does poor people that can't feed themself has to do with pilgrimage... What a wasted country

I swear now I know for a fact that it was not the white man that started slavery. It is a beast that gets treated as a slave

naptu2:
Pilgrims pay the Federal Government, through the National Hajj Commission (NAHCON) for their pilgrimage.

The government's role (through the National Hajj Commission and the National Christian Pilgrimage Commission) is to receive money from pilgrims and help them organise the pilgrimage. The government helps the pilgrims to negotiate with airlines and get a good deal (discounts, etc), but the airfare is paid by the pilgrims. The government provides consular services to ensure that the registered pilgrims can enter the Holy Lands and that they are safe there, etc. but the cost of the pilgrimage is borne by the pilgrims.

The National Hajj Commission has set a deadline of December 5th for pilgrims to pay for the pilgrimage, but the Kebbi State Government says that some of its citizens will not be able to pay by that date and so it is giving them a loan, that is, it will pay on their behalf and then they can repay the state government later.

This has sparked a debate among northerners on social media.




Bashir El-Rufai BashirElRufai




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Mahdi Shehu @shehu_mahdi




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Sani Ahmad Kaitafi @KaitafiS




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Love thy nation, speak well to it @OLABIM




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Abdallah Gumel @super_haqq




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Despite the fact that the so-called holy Scripture explicitly stipulates this pilgrimage for only those who can afford it?

In a democracy there is no issue with the people deciding how their own revenues and taxes are spent. If they want subsidies so be it.

However such decisions should be by popular advocacy not a government imposition. When the liability is borne by the people they themselves will find the route to compensating for other underfed sectors.

One of the big problems of our democracy is government doing things no one has asked them to and simultaneously neglecting things the people desperately need.

Nothing to say but Allah Akbar🤓

My region is progressing so I have no business with them.

When we are trying to counsel them to vote the right candidates to power, they will call us expansionists.

They are getting what they deserve.

Next!

That's why North still remains backward. Kebbi State is so dry .. Kai

How did the south end up in the same country as these people ?
May it never be well with Lord Lugard

And the person that take these loans will bear Alhaji/Alhaja in advance before he is able to settle the loan…and they said tinubu should not sleep because of their insecurity

That's exactly what the nation needs now. If we go on pilgrimage and pray, watch how money would start pouring in. Don't fix roads, don't build schools, don't pay doctors or invest in Agriculture with that money, no that would not yield results instead use it for pilgrimage

Later they will be shouting that Nigeria money is used to develop Lagos instead of common sense that sensible people with sensible ideas are governing the state.

Chai! Untop the worship of one black stone in the Kaaba?

Idolaters everywhere!

Religion is really dealing with people, all the problems facing the North, it is Pilgrim that is of utmost important to them and they are voting 10billion for it,.
Health, insecurity, economic empowerment, Education, housing, food, agriculture etc are not their problem. The North actually know what they are doing, steal money, hide and retire it through religion