Kwara State Governor approves N184m refund for 2,300 pilgrims

Kwara State Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazq  has approved N184 million refund for 2,300 pilgrims who performed the holy pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia this year from the state .

The money is to cater for the refund of excess payments by the 2,300 pilgrims that paid the sum of N3 million as Hajj fare for the just concluded pilgrimage National Daily Newspaper gathered.

Kwara State Muslim Pilgrims’ Welfare Board Ilorin has already commenced the refund to the pilgrims.

The beneficiaries who cut across the 16 local government areas in the state also include Kwarans and non-Kwarans.

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Kwara State Executive Secretary of the Muslim Pilgrims’ Welfare Board, Alhaji Abdulsalam Abdulkadir, in a statement in Ilorin, thanked the state government for the timely release of the money.

He advised all the concerned pilgrims to come with original receipts for the collection of their N80,000 refund.

The Executive Secretary further disclosed that the payment of the refund which commenced yesterday, September 11, would continue until all the affected pilgrims are dully refunded National Daily Newspaper gathered.