Exhorbitant yearly increase of hajj fares worrisome

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• Zoobie-Zoobie 11 years ago

  Hajj should not be the business of government... Hajj should be a personal responsibility.

  Hajj should not be the business of government... Hajj should be a personal responsibility.

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• Kwam 11 years ago

  Mahama says please pay the full fare now.

  Mahama says please pay the full fare now.

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• Prophet 11 years ago

  KEEP GOVT OUT OF THIS

  KEEP GOVT OUT OF THIS

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• JEFF 11 years ago

  If you wake up one fine morning and decided to take a trip to the middle east, walk around a black stone in circles.And then fly back home, it is your choice. You must fully pay for it. Do not look for any subsidy from the g ...
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  If you wake up one fine morning and decided to take a trip to the middle east, walk around a black stone in circles.And then fly back home, it is your choice. You must fully pay for it. Do not look for any subsidy from the government to take such a trip if you do not have the money. Yes the price of aviation fuel is up. Price hike is to be expected. Waste of government resources!!

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• Kwaame 11 years ago

  Who cares if you are charged a nothing or a billion dollars? The government should get out of this hajj business. There should be no sponsorships to the muslim pilgrims - go on your pilgrimage at your own expense.

  Who cares if you are charged a nothing or a billion dollars? The government should get out of this hajj business. There should be no sponsorships to the muslim pilgrims - go on your pilgrimage at your own expense.

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• mohammed abubakar (malam sani) 11 years ago

  we are very dissappointed by this bad attitude of government towards muslims.we will advice ourselves come 2016 in sha Allah

  we are very dissappointed by this bad attitude of government towards muslims.we will advice ourselves come 2016 in sha Allah

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• Nii Akwei 11 years ago

  We shall see.

  We shall see.

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• Speedy Gonzalez 11 years ago

  I would like to stick to the new Ghana cedis than the old.Why would you get stuck to the past whiles there is a present,i guess it is a strategy to embellish and frighten the general public.

  I would like to stick to the new Ghana cedis than the old.Why would you get stuck to the past whiles there is a present,i guess it is a strategy to embellish and frighten the general public.

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• Wofa Kwame 11 years ago

  From the article:
  
  "It is worrying to note however that, though the 2014 Hajj fare remains unchanged (US $3450) in dollar term, its equivalent value in cedis has ballooned to 100million old cedis . Thus, within a space of a ...
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  From the article:
  
  "It is worrying to note however that, though the 2014 Hajj fare remains unchanged (US $3450) in dollar term, its equivalent value in cedis has ballooned to 100million old cedis . Thus, within a space of a year, Ghanaian pilgrims will have to cough an extra 32 milliion old cedis more than they paid last year."
  
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  Why are some people so stupid? So these so-called "Concerned Citizens" don't know the simple fact that it takes more cedis to purchase dollars when the value of the cedi falls? Or they want the government to pay the difference? Performing the Hajj is not obligatory for Muslims who can't afford it. So it's not "compulsory-by-force".
  
  Kwame

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• Burhan 11 years ago

  You piece was very educative and good but you when over board in the last paragraph when you trying to introduce politics into your nice piece. (Additionally, the government should come clean on the details and the nature of ...
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  You piece was very educative and good but you when over board in the last paragraph when you trying to introduce politics into your nice piece. (Additionally, the government should come clean on the details and the nature of sponsorships it gives to Muslim pilgrims. What is known is that , but for the few hundreds of party foot soldiers that receive sponsorships from the public purse , every other pilgrim bears the full cost which covers all their expenses including airfare, feeding, accommodation and administrative charges.) That's it. Anyway it is a nice reminder.

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• Aku 11 years ago

  Hajj fare should even go up to two hundred million!! Who cares!! It is not compulsory. Moreover, you deserve it, most Moslems belong to ndc party. Enjoy your better gha agenda. Idey beeeee, keke!!!!

  Hajj fare should even go up to two hundred million!! Who cares!! It is not compulsory. Moreover, you deserve it, most Moslems belong to ndc party. Enjoy your better gha agenda. Idey beeeee, keke!!!!

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• Neenash 11 years ago

  The Muslim associations should do something about this 200% increase in the hajj fares.why is the gov't making Islam a very expensive religion. the gov't has disapointed us in our econony.so please Hajj board of Ghana do some ...
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  The Muslim associations should do something about this 200% increase in the hajj fares.why is the gov't making Islam a very expensive religion. the gov't has disapointed us in our econony.so please Hajj board of Ghana do something now.our heart is heavy.exclude gov't out of Hajj business.

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• de kromaten 11 years ago

  better vote mahama off to enjoy ur hajj pilgrimage else u moslems will pay 200million hajj fare nxt yr....hahahaaa..... it dey bee keke

  better vote mahama off to enjoy ur hajj pilgrimage else u moslems will pay 200million hajj fare nxt yr....hahahaaa..... it dey bee keke

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• hafiz abubakar 11 years ago

  lack of prudence in govt fiscal economic management accounts to the quantum leap,100 million old cedis per heard, what a shock!!!!

  lack of prudence in govt fiscal economic management accounts to the quantum leap,100 million old cedis per heard, what a shock!!!!

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• BRANDY 11 years ago

  ide biiiiiiii kekekekekee.....NDC PAYS see rlg, gyeeda, subah, woyome, bettymould, barton odro for money......hahahahaaaaaaaa...

  ide biiiiiiii kekekekekee.....NDC PAYS see rlg, gyeeda, subah, woyome, bettymould, barton odro for money......hahahahaaaaaaaa...

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• obey 11 years ago

  the piece i believe is trying to expose the incompetency of the mahama administration and how it impacts on our individual and organisational lives,and to make it clare to some of u who do not understand how things happen d ...
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  the piece i believe is trying to expose the incompetency of the mahama administration and how it impacts on our individual and organisational lives,and to make it clare to some of u who do not understand how things happen during hajj. govt does not subsidise hajj, but his policies could affect our religious activities since we cannot fullfil them as required.we dont need subsidy to go to hajj, all we ask for is good administration of the state economy so that it wouldnt have any negative impact on our activities as muslims. Today is the muslims and tomorrow might be u. great piece sam and keep it up.

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• Donkor Seidu 11 years ago

  IF upon all this economic hardship,government want us to pay this ransom before performing Hajj. Where then is our faith us muslims in this country. Gov't must do something about it. Muslims should not be punished as a result ...
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  IF upon all this economic hardship,government want us to pay this ransom before performing Hajj. Where then is our faith us muslims in this country. Gov't must do something about it. Muslims should not be punished as a result of Gov't inability to stabilize the Cedis. So Gov't should do something not to let us see him as our enemy in Islam.

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