Ahead of this year’s Hajj, the first flight from Ghana is scheduled to depart on Tuesday, May 28, 2024.
The Ghana Hajj Board has confirmed that the traditional sequence of flights departing from Tamale before Accra will be maintained.
Hajj is the annual pilgrimage made by Muslims to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, in the Middle East. This year, Hajj is taking place between June 14 to June 19, 2024.
Alhaji Abdulai Rahman Alhassan Gomda, Director of Communications for the Hajj Board, told Umaru Sanda Amadu in an interview on Citi FM’s Eyewitness News that the first of nine flights from Ghana will leave the Northern Regional capital for Medina, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday.
Subsequent flights from Tamale are scheduled for May 29 and 30, 2024, with the final flight departing on Friday, May 31, 2024.
Flights from Accra will begin on Sunday, June 2, followed by additional flights on June 3, 4, 5, and 6, all heading to Medina, Saudi Arabia.
Alhaji Gomda explained that chartered private airlines would be utilised for these flights, as commercial airlines would not be used because “it will be too much. Even with this people are complaining.”
He took the opportunity to advise pilgrims to be devout and follow instructions.
“Learn to be with us. They should take instructions from us. There have been instances where people don’t take instructions from us, you tell them what to do and they want to do what they want to do.
“That is especially being a religious exercise, there is a need for them to be very religious so that they get the spiritual dividends which made them go there,” he stated.
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