The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) Madina office has explained the hitches hindering the strict adherence to the Commission’s five-day maximum stay policy in Madina by Nigerian pilgrims.
Speaking with members National Media Team in Madina, the NAHCON Coordinator in the City, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris Mahmoud, said although the states pilgrims boards were strictly adhering to the advisory, some of them ran into various unforeseen logistics challenges such as passport mix up and late submission of departure request from Madina to Makkah among others.
He also said that the Commission was keenly monitoring service providers, saying that some have been warned, cautioned, while others sanctioned to serve as deterrent and to make them live up to their contractual agreement with the Commission.
It could be recalled that NAHCON had earlier sanctioned some service providers over poor services.
It has been observed that since the new NAHCON five day Madinah stay policy came into force about a week ago, some states have been experiencing difficulties in sorting out and transporting their pilgrims to Makkah.
