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| Abike Dabiri |
Senior Special Assistant
to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has
charged intending Muslim pilgrims on the need to stay on the side of the law.
Dabiri-Erewa warned yet
to depart for 2016 Hajj exercise to resist any temptation to take hard drugs to
Saudi Arabia, reminding them that it attracts death penalty. The Saudi Arabian
authorities have asked Nigerian pilgrims not to bring kola nuts during the 2016
Hajj.
More than 70,000
Nigerian pilgrims are expected to perform 2016 Hajj. Since the beginning of
transportation of pilgrims to Saudi Arabia in Aug. 15, more than five Nigerians
have been arrested for alleged possession of substance suspected to be hard
drugs as well as kola nuts.
The presidential aide in
a statement by her Special Assistant on Media, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, said that
despite repeated warnings and workshops for intending pilgrims, it is
disheartening that some Nigerians still ran foul of Saudi Arabia authorities’
law.
She reminded the
pilgrims that some Nigerians caught with hard drugs in the last few years are
still currently on death row in Saudi Arabia, pleading with pilgrims to shun
the shameful act.
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