A first class Emir of Zing in Taraba State Alhaji Abbas Ibrahim, has been confirmed as one of the over 750 pilgrims that died on Thursday at a stampede in Jamrat. Alhaji Abbas was also the state’s Amirul Hajj for the 2015 pilgrimage.
This was even as the Zing Traditional Council has also confirmed that the Emir died along with two of his four wives during the stampede.
The chairman of the state pilgrims welfare board, Alhaji Hamman-Adama Tukur, confirmed the death of the Emir in Jamrat, saying that the remains of the emir had been recovered and buried in Mecca yesterday.
According to him, many indigenes of Taraba State were still missing, while a few others, whose names he did not mention, but who sustained injuries, were receiving treatment in some Saudi hospitals.
Meanwhile, the Tafidan Zing, Gurama Bawa, who confirmed the death of the two wives of the Emir said that the late emir was aged 62 and had been on the throne for 19 years.
He left behind, two wives and 13 children.
This was even as the presiding justice of the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, Justice Abubakar Abdulkadir Jega, was also reported to be one of the over 750 pilgrims who died in the Jamrat stampede in Mina.
Information had it that the deceased was a member of the Kebbi State Government delegation to 2015 Hajj.
Government had earlier confirmed the death of the Deputy Secretary General of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Professor Tijani Abubakar El-Miskin and renowned journalist and activist, Hajiya Bilkisu Yusuf in the stampede.
The late justice was a brother of the former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega. [myad]
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