By: Usman MZ
Jigawa State Pilgrims Welfare Board has organized a train-the-trainer workshop for facilitators from all 27 local government areas to prepare them for training the state’s intending pilgrims for the 2025 Hajj.
The Director General of the board, Alhaji Ahmed Umar Labbo disclosed this during a one day capacity building workshop for the newly local government hajj preachers.
He said the facilitators, were drawn from each of the 27 local government areas of the state for the forthcoming hajj exercise.
Alhaji Ahmed Umar Labbo said that the facilitators would in turn train the intending pilgrims at designated centres across their respective local government areas of the state.
He explained that, the workshop was organized to educate the officers on the responsibilities reposed on them by the state government.
He said, that the gesture was to ensure proper training of the state intending pilgrims on the basic tenets of Hajj.
“The facilitators are mandated to train prospective pilgrims on obligations, tenets and cardinal principles of the Hajj in Saudi Arabia”
Labbo, pointed out that, proper education of pilgrims would prepare them to conduct the Hajj in accordance with the teachings of Islam and be good ambassadors of the state and the country in general.
According to him, the workshop will give the intending pilgrims the opportunity to know proper and acceptable Hajj rites.
He further explained that, the board would assigned the facilitators into various committees to ensure the successful execution of the 2025 Hajj operations.
Alhaji Ahmed Umar Labbo further explained that, as pilgrims guides, they must stay close to the pilgrims for any assistance both in Nigeria and Saudi Arabia when the need arises.
While commenting on preparations,the DG noted that, the board had already collected and submitted the international passports of intending pilgrims into the visa processing system.
He described the sponsoring of the facilitators from all the 27 local government areas of the state to Saudi Arabia as first of its kind by the jigawa state government.
Earlier, the Director of Enlightenment and Propagation of the board, Alhaji Abdullahi Aliyu, addressed the officers on the responsibilities during the 2025 hajj operations.
Some of the participants who spoke to Radio Nigeria commended Governor Umar Namadi and the Director General of the board, Ahmed Umar Labbo for approving their to be among officials that will lead the state pilgrims for the forthcoming hajj exercise.
They also called on the intending pilgrims to cooperate with them in order to achieve the desired objectives
