Hajj 2021: Take COVID-19 antibodies, Lagos Commissioner tells meaning travelers

The Lagos State Commissioner for Home Affairs, Prince Anofiu Olanrewaju Elegushi has encouraged the Intending Pilgrims for 2021 Hajj exercise to try to take the COVID-19 immunization. About 4million portions of AstraZeneca/Oxford antibody, produced by the Serum Institute of India (SII), showed up the country last Tuesday.

Sovereign Elegushi gave the counsel during an extraordinary gathering he had with the alliance of Ulamahs of the Lagos State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board at the Shamsi Adisa Thomas (SAT) Mosque, Old Secretariat, Ikeja, Tuesday. The Commissioner who serves as the Asiwaju of Ikate Land, encouraged the Intending Pilgrims, Ulamahs and different partners in the Hajj tasks not to give space for debilitation from any quarters concerning organization of the antibody at whatever point the Federal Government starts to control it. He added that solitary holders of the antibody declaration would be permitted section into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for 2021 Hajj work out.

While talking on transporting and security of Pilgrims to and from Saudi Arabia, the Commissioner told the gathering of the plans by the State Government through the Ministry and the Board towards guaranteeing that a respectable aircraft is locked in for the carrying of the meaning travelers inside a few days of activity, focusing on that the old framework while aiming explorers remained in the air terminal for quite a long time prior to being carried are away for acceptable. He likewise accentuated that any aircraft that defaults on the carrying arrangement would be punished as needs be. Reviewing the failure of the aiming pioneers to set out on Hajj in 2020, the Commissioner appreciated all the influenced proposing explorers for leaving their Hajj passage with the state government, saying that the Governor, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu was enormously supported over the trust the explorers rested in the state.

Elegushi who expressed that Hajj resembled a column that holds the whole universe together, guaranteed the gathering that a befitting convenience would be accommodated explorers both in Makkah and Madinah just as Muna. He looked for the Ulamahs' help for the state government in her journey towards giving the pioneers the most amazing aspect Hajj experience and clinical treatment in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. On his part, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Islamic issue, Alh. Ahmed Abdullahi Jebe required an agreeable and heartfelt connection between the Ulamahs and timetable officials in their dealings with the meaning explorers at the different Local Government Areas of the State. He said their participation would additionally help the state in making genuinely necessary progress in the Hajj activity. The Executive Secretary, Lagos State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, Mr. Rahman Ishola; Chairman, SAT Mosque, Ikeja, Mr. Murtala Bamgboshe and Chairman of Ulamahs, Alh. Muhsin Ajagbemokeferi among others graced the occasion.

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