{"id":243831,"date":"2016-08-29T06:11:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T06:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=243831"},"modified":"2016-08-29T06:11:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T06:11:53","slug":"39-ghanaian-pilgrims-repatriated-from-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=243831","title":{"rendered":"39 Ghanaian pilgrims repatriated from Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some thirty nine female pilgrims from Ghana have been repatriated from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Pilgrims Affairs Office, Ghana (PAOG) regret to announce the repatriation of some 39 female pilgrims from the kingdom of Saudi Arabia,\u201d a statement from the Pilgrims office said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-243833 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/immigration.jpg\" alt=\"immigration\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;jnwoF9tBWTqbiLXdJ9E628YNXK1kj7hf&#8221;]According to the statement, those repatriated comprised 9 minors and 30 others categorised as being \u201cwithout guardians because they are less than 40 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia requires that all ladies less than 40 years old be accompanied by an adult male relative.<\/p>\n<p>The statement however said PAOG is working with immigration officers and the Saudi Ambassador to Ghana to rectify the problem as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInsha Allah it is our hope that when it is done the affected pilgrims will return to continue their pilgrimage,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hajj pilgrims fly to Mecca<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first batch of <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/08\/19\/mahama-sees-off-1st-batch-of-hajj-pilgrims-from-tamale-photos\/\"><strong>500 Muslim Pilgrims<\/strong><\/a><\/span> were flown directly from the Tamale airport to Jedda, Saudi Arabia on August 19, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Hajj committee, about five thousand pilgrims are to fly from Ghana to Saudi Arabia for this year\u2019s Hajj pilgrimage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Godwin A. 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[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;jnwoF9tBWTqbiLXdJ9E628YNXK1kj7hf&#8221;]According to the statement, those repatriated comprised 9 minors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":243832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/243832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}