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| Nigerian on pilgrimage |
A group, Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), has urged the
three tiers of government to wash their hands off the yearly sponsorship of
thousands of Nigerians to religious pilgrimages.
The Chairman of CLO, Anambra Branch, Comrade Aloysius Attah,
said that a sum of about N14.93bn goes into such exercises annually.
He contended that Nigeria, being a secular state, should
desist from such sponsorship, especially now that the country’s earnings are
gradually dwindling by the day.
``We call for the total scrapping of government funding of
religious pilgrimages in Nigeria.
