BENIN CITY – Edo State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board yesterday in Benin City presented its report of the 2007 Hajj operations to the state government.
Receiving the report, the Acting Governor of the state, Mr. Lucky Imasuen commended the Board on its peace making role among muslims in the state.
Mr. Imasuen, who commended the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Hon. Sabikat Kassim-Momodu on her effort to ensure effectiveness of the Board, assured it of the provision of a vehicle for its operations, while machinery would be put in motion to actualise the possibility of having one doctor and a nurse-attached to 100 pilgrims during muslims pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.
The acting governor explained that the State Governor, Prof. Oserheimen Osunbor was in a hurry to make positive impact on infrastructural development in the state and that progress was being made in that direction, pointing out that the muslim community in the state should continuously support the state government just as he wished them a successful 2008 hajj operation.
Earlier, the Chairman, Edo State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, Alhaji Kasimu Abu Ozeto thanked the state governor for the financial and moral support to the board to make its hajj operations successful.
Ozeto, whose address was read by the Secretary to the Board, Alhaji Okhimamhe Akashat Sulaiman, explained that 270 intending pilgrims were screened for the 2007 holy pilgrimage and that 269 eventually attended and returned from the hajj without any death or defection recorded.
He requested for government assistance to the board in order to make its operations within the state and during the pilgrimage in the holy land, successful while calling for a vehicle to ease its operations in Saudi Arabia.
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