The Muslims and Christians obviously can never have enough of acting holy through these pilgrimages even when they cannot afford it by paying from their pockets.
The organizational racket of the money-guzzling pilgrimages is a hard slap on the face of decency and religious piety. It ought not to be an all-comers affair. Government involvement in pilgrimages has turned the matter into a blatant racket.If the pilgrims actually want to worship God or Allah then government should stay out of it totally.
Many Nigerians do not know that the Pilgrims Welfare Board was set up at first in the old Western Region in the 1950s when there was fierce contestation of power between the Action Group and the National Council of Nigerian Citizens .The AG felt that the way to counter the estimated 70 percent of the Muslim votes then going to the NCNC was to appease the Muslims through the setting-up of the Pilgrims Welfare Board.
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