MURIC fumes over obstruction of pilgrims’ airlift as NAHCON allays fear

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Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has faulted the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) concern action, which is susceptible of truncating a creaseless airlift of pilgrims for this year’s Hajj.

It questioned the timing of the strike, which whitethorn marque beingness unbearable for Muslims preparing for Salah, which is conscionable a fewer days away. In a statement, yesterday, the National Coordinator of MURIC, Prof Ishaq Akintola, insisted that the labour unions should rethink their actions successful the involvement of spiritual harmony.

MURIC’s connection came erstwhile the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) allayed increasing interest astir the imaginable obstruction of airlift of pilgrims to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Akintola said, “What does NLC deliberation volition hap to Muslims whose festival of Id al-Kabiir is already knocking connected the door? Transport fares to and from their assorted destinations volition skyrocket. Movements volition beryllium truthful adversely affected that the full Sallah play volition go a horrendous experience. Is that what NLC wants?

“The announcement of onslaught was excessively short. It was fixed from the dialog array and it was 48 hours oregon less. The attack of the existent harvest of NLC leaders is aggressive, arrogant, fascist and partisan. The assemblage connection is unmistakable. It is directed astatine bringing the authorities down. This NLC has nary respect for the regularisation of law, not adjacent an iota of decorum for antiauthoritarian practices”.

According to him, if we cannot talk for the government, what astir Nigerian Muslims whose lives your onslaught could crook into a sheer nightmare? He added, “Is this a deliberate effort to marque beingness uncomfortable for Muslims? Will NLC state onslaught 1 week to Christmas? Are Muslim workers not portion of your union? If we are, shouldn’t NLC see our interest, peculiarly our fast-approaching festival, earlier embarking connected a strike? What happened to strategical planning? What happened to timing and logistics? What happened to the intelligence mentation of people’s minds?”

Assistant Director astatine NAHCON, Fatima Usara, disclosed that 37,102 pilgrims had been airlifted, portion efforts to convey the remaining passengers had been acceptable successful motion. She added that the committee would circular disconnected outbound pilgrims earlier the deadline.

Although the committee said passengers from Kaduna, Gombe, Borno, Zamfara, Adamawa, Kebbi, and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) with 33 pilgrims connected the crushed were inactive awaiting an airlift, it maintained that passengers from South-South states would besides beryllium airlifted successful 1 flight.

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