'Even there's ashawo joint close to Mount Sinai' - Melaye kicks against govt sponsoring pilgrimages

Former Kogi West senator, Dino Melaye, has criticised the Federal Government’s expenditure connected sponsoring Nigerians to spiritual pilgrimages successful Mecca and Israel, arguing that the funds should alternatively beryllium channelled towards addressing the country’s developmental challenges.

Melaye made his presumption known during an interrogation shared connected societal media, wherever helium questioned the government’s engagement successful spiritual activities, insisting that matters of religion and an individual's narration with God should stay personal.

The erstwhile lawmaker maintained that churches, mosques and affluent individuals should instrumentality work for sponsoring spiritual pilgrims alternatively than relying connected nationalist funds.

He argued that spiritual institutions and financially susceptible individuals were amended positioned to enactment radical wishing to undertake specified spiritual journeys.

"That is the relation of churches. That is the relation of billionaires who person made wealth who tin sponsor radical connected spiritual pilgrimage. And there...