The final flight carrying 430 Ghanaian Hajj pilgrims has arrived safely in Jeddah after taking off in Accra Saturday morning.
The final flight was originally scheduled to take off on Thursday but the Hajj Board rescheduled it to Saturday to pave way for the processing of more documents for a full flight.
In the end, the decision paid off as the final flight which left Accra on Saturday was full with 430 passengers on board.
Unfortunately, 27 passengers were unable to make it as the last flight was over subscribed.
With all of the Board's 10 scheduled chartered flight over, the Hajj Board is making frantic efforts to ensure the 27 who could not find space on the last flight are airlifted through other means.
The Chairman of the Hajj Board, Ben Abdallah Banda has expressed disappointment about the inability of the 27 people to join and confirmed that, inspite of the tight schedule and how close the Hajj is, the Board is trying its best to find a suitable alternative for them.
Over all, the Board has airlifted 4190 Ghananain pilgrims for the 2023 Hajj from Tamale and Accra with both the northern and southern zones doing 5 flights each.
Source: Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Ghana's quota for the 2023 hajj is 6,000 . In all we are being told 4,190 pilgrims have been airlifted to perform the hajj . This means Ghana was unable to utilize its quota to the fullest. How come 27 people were unable to make it when the quota have not been exhausted? It's is the expectation of Ghanaian prospective pilgrims who are planning to perform hajj 2024 that the hajj board will come out with the fare very early and give details as to how they arrived at the figure with the view to ensuring transparency. When the board came out with the GHC 75,000.00 figure as the fair for hajj 2023, they were asked to give details i.e. the flight fare in and out, accommodation, transport, feeding, medicals etc ,per pilgrim The board failed to do this simple thing thus the suspicion that the fare was inflated to benefit some people. Investigations revealed that Ghana's hajj fare is the highest in west Africa this year. Even Nigeria with its huge Moslem population reduced the hajj fare for 2023 as compared to its 2022 fare .