The National Youth Service Corps has expressed concern over the safety of 100 corps members, who participated in this year’s Hajj in Saudi Arabia, Saturday Punch is reporting.
The concern of the management of the NYSC follows the stampede in Mina, Saudi Arabia, where 99 Nigerians died and over 200 still missing.
The stampede led to the death of over 1,100 pilgrims.
The management of the NYSC said it was yet to hear from the Corps members who embarked on the pilgrimage.
The NYSC Director of Press and Public Relations, Bose Aderibigbe, who spoke with Saturday PUNCH in an interview, said: “We have started contacting their next-of-kin to let us know what is happening. So far, they have not told us anyone was missing.
“About 100 corps members got permission from us to go (for Hajj) and we have contacted their next-of-kin to find out whether they are in link with them. We have contacted our various states to contact their next-of-kin on the phone.
“The management of NYSC has compiled a list of those who applied and sent to the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria; until the reply comes that we can know. Also, their next-of-kin have been contacted. No one has gotten back to us that their wards were involved.”
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