H-A-J-J S-T-A-M-P-E-D-E!!!
JIMOH ALIYU’S WIFE DENIES YEMENI SECURITY RAP WITH TRAGEDY
BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.
THERE IS A SERIOUS WAR IN YEMEN AS AT PRESS TIME
A wife of popular Yoruba cultural figure and thespian,Chief
Jimoh Aliyu has debunked the claims in some quarters that it was the lack of
security in Saudi Arabia during the just concluded pilgrimage exercise that led
to the stampede.
Fondly called Mummy Kudirat by family members,Chief Mrs
Aliyu in an exclusive interview with the News Office Desk of Paedia Express
Multimedia in Lagos,Nigeria was full of thanks and praises to almighty God for
preserving her life during the recent Hajj in which there were many loss of lives.
She prayed that the family members of those who lost their
loved ones during the Hajj will have the fortitude to bear the loss.
She revealed that she was nowhere near the scene of the
accident when the crane crashed and crushed some pilgrims to death but that
virtually everybody she knew in Nigeria tried to call her to be sure of her
safety as news went viral of the tragedy in Mecca,Saudi Arabia.
Chief Mrs Aliyu also explained that she had already
conducted her own stoning-the-devil- ritual at Mina before the tragic incident
which led to a stampede took place.
She debunked in very strong terms that the war between some
militia groups in Neighboring Yemen and Saudi Arabia led to the stampede as
some had argued that the Yemeni crisis led to a shortage of armed forces
personnel that should have being used for the pilgrimage exercice.
She speaks:’I think God was angry with us,what happened
there was more of a mystery and it is difficult for anyone to even really
explain”
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Riyadh (AFP) - A top Saudi commander
and an Emirati officer were killed in Yemen Monday during Arab coalition
operations against Iran-backed rebels, the Riyadh-led alliance said.
Saudi Colonel Abdullah al-Sahyan and
Emirati officer Sultan al-Kitbi were killed at dawn on Monday "while they
were carrying out their duties in supervising operations to liberate Taez"
province in Yemen's southwest, the official SPA news agency said.
A Yemeni officer told AFP that both
officers were killed when rebels fired a rocket at a coastal road in the
strategic province, which overlooks the Bab al-Mandab Strait between the Red
Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
The rebels claimed in a statement on
their sabanews.net website that they have fired a Tochka missile against
"a command centre run by the enemy" in the Bab al-Mandab area.
The rebels claimed the attack caused
"many losses in lives and military equipment," including Apache
helicopters, among the Saudi-led coalition ranks.
AFP could not immediately confirm
these claims from other sources.
The coalition has been battling
Iran-backed rebels in Yemen since March, and has provided loyalist forces with
troops and equipment as well as carrying out air strikes on insurgent
positions.
Sahyan on Saturday met Yemeni
President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi who awarded him with a medal of courage,
according to Yemen's official sabanew.net.
He was identified as commander of
the Saudi forces in provisional capital Aden, where Hadi is based.
The United Arab Emirates, playing a
key role in the Saudi-led coalition, confirmed the death of its officer without
specifying his rank.
In early September, a similar rebel
missile strike on a coalition base in Yemen's eastern Marib province killed 67
coalition soldiers, most of them Emiratis.
So far at least 80 people, mostly
soldiers and border guards, have been killed in Saudi Arabia because of the
Yemen conflict.
The UAE says it has lost almost 70
soldiers so far.
Several Bahraini troops and one
Qatari soldier have been killed as part of the coalition operations.
In Yemen itself, the United Nations
says more than 5,800 people have been killed, about half of them civilians, and
more than 27,000 wounded since March.
In a related issue,the Chief Medical Director of Our Friend
Hospital,Dr Tosin Mohammed said it was wrong for anybody to ascribe what happen
to the carelessness of anyone as it was purely divine.
He lamented the way people were quick to judge on the issue
without pausing a little to think deeply on an issue that was purely spiritual
.
While thanking God for the repose of the souls of the
departed ,the medical doctor thanked God for his blessings at this years Hajj.
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