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THE Kano State Pilgrims Welfare Board has disqualified 12 intending female pilgrims, who have been found to be pregnant, from performing this year’s pilgrimage to the holy land.
This is just as no fewer than 5,540 intending pilgrims from Kano are currently undergoing screening across the 44 local government headquarters to examine their physical fitness, medical history and other determinants required for the smooth exercise.
The board, however, stated that the exercise would end onJuly 12, 2015.
Disclosing this, the board’s Public Relations Officer, Nuhu Badamasi, said the women, who were discovered to be pregnant during the screening exercise, would not be allowed for to go for the hajj.
According to him, if they were not detected, it would have made Kano to lose 25 seats and other stiffer penalties from the Saudi Arabia authority.
He further added that the penalty would have been reduction of the allocated seats by 25.
Badamasi noted that if it happened that any of the women put to bed in the holy land, the penalty would have been stiffer.
He said that, under the ground rules guiding hajj operation, pregnant women and other pilgrims with peculiar medical challenges were discouraged from attempting to perform the spiritual journey.
This is just as no fewer than 5,540 intending pilgrims from Kano are currently undergoing screening across the 44 local government headquarters to examine their physical fitness, medical history and other determinants required for the smooth exercise.
The board, however, stated that the exercise would end onJuly 12, 2015.
Disclosing this, the board’s Public Relations Officer, Nuhu Badamasi, said the women, who were discovered to be pregnant during the screening exercise, would not be allowed for to go for the hajj.
According to him, if they were not detected, it would have made Kano to lose 25 seats and other stiffer penalties from the Saudi Arabia authority.
He further added that the penalty would have been reduction of the allocated seats by 25.
Badamasi noted that if it happened that any of the women put to bed in the holy land, the penalty would have been stiffer.
He said that, under the ground rules guiding hajj operation, pregnant women and other pilgrims with peculiar medical challenges were discouraged from attempting to perform the spiritual journey.
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