Our most prominent Challenge was in Muna: Hajj 2017

The Executive Secretary, Lagos State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, Mr. Muftau Okoya has said that the best test explorers looked amid the simply finished up hajj in Saudi Arabia was in Muna. Mina is a Tent City situated around 15kilometers toward the east of Makkah with nearness to Mount Arafat. Around 200,000 aerated and cooled tents were introduced in the entire range as brief convenience for around 4 million pioneers.

"Our most noteworthy test in this year operation was in Muna. There was an out surge of explorers since Saudi Arabia Government conceded an excessive number of pioneers at the impairment of the accessible offices. In this way, the offices were over extended to the degree that Lagos travelers experienced the issue of convenience in Muna". As per him, the Lagos State travelers put their development to test by guaranteeing that this test did not put their understanding and comportment into test. He expressed that the Board was not under any strain to hold the main position won in the 2016 Hajj operation, including, "We are not into rivalry with anybody, we are simply doing what we know how to do best, which is giving our explorers the best treatment ever in Umurah and Hajj administrations, he said. On Hajj toll, Okoya clarified that 2018 Hajj charge would rely upon the execution of the naira in the trade showcase. "National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has been working round the clock to diminish hajj admission however it has been extremely troublesome in light of the fact that 90% of the segments of hajj toll are outside trade". On the term of journey in the sacred land, Okoya expressed that the required number of days for a total Umurah and Hajj practice is 45 days; yet the Board would have wanted to lessen the days to 20 in the event that it had the forces considering businesspeople and ladies who were for the most part influenced amid the 40-day time span in Saudi Arabia. He included that the utilization of innovation made the current year's operation simpler in light of the fact that every single vital office because of every pioneer were enrolled for online through NAHCON. "Offices, for example, nourishment, lodgings, tents, transports among different requirements were connected for on the web and this encouraged the accomplishment of the operation. Okoya focused on that hajj was intended to instruct all explorers that each Muslim is equivalent to another. It empowers love, companionship, fellowship, confide in, netorking and awareness of the vanities of life. "The lesson learnt so far is that every operation accompanies its own particular difficulties and that all difficulties have arrangements. In this way, we looked for the correct arrangements amid those issues regardless we turned out effectively," he expressed. "The issue caused by late installment will be tended to in the 2018 hajj work out. A due date will be issued this time yet we are sitting tight for NAHCON to settle hajj toll. Lagos State started arrangement for hajj 2018 route back in Saudi Arabia", he announced.