MILITARY BARS AIRLINES FROM LIFTING PASSENGERS AT MAIDUGURI AIRPORT
Pilgrims from Borno state were on Friday compelled to travel seven
hours tortuous journey to Kano to board flight for this year's lesser
hajj in Saudi Arabia as military barred Maiduguri International Airport from lifting of passengers to the Muslims holy land.
Also given a sad dose of treatment is the former minority leader of the
House of Representatives and senator presently representing Borno
Central at the National Assembly, Mohammed Ali Ndume, who was not
allowed to travel in a chartered flight by the military establishment in
troubled Borno state.
It was gathered that all efforts of the
governor of the state, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, to persuade the military
to rescind its decision fell on deaf ears as every aircraft was ordered
to leave the terminal empty.
It took the intervention of
prominent politicians in the state to calm the aggrieved 278 pilgrims
who had plan to board the flight to Saudi Arabia as they were persuaded
to take a seven-hours bus ride to the Aminu Kano International Airport,
Kano, a journey which normally would have lasted five hours without the
numerous military checkpoints on the highway.
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6/28/2014
MILITARY BARS AIRLINES FROM LIFTING PASSENGERS AT MAIDUGURI AIRPORT
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