Nigeria Lady Seeks Compensation From Xtain Pilgrim Board

Dirty Isreal hotel,where they were kept

The Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC) has been accused of cheating Nigerian pilgrims who travel to Isreal on pilgrimage. The charge came in a letter of complaint sent to the commission by Efunbola Coker, a pilgrim who recently visited Israel and Palestine.

Ms. Coker accused the commission of putting Nigerian pilgrims in shabby hotels and compromising their safety and comfort.

Ms. Coker stated that she paid a total of Four Hundred and Six Thousand One Hundred and Fifty Naira (N406,150.00) for the travel package with a promise of four and five star hotel accommodation. Instead, Mrs. Coker and other 56 pilgrims were lodged in shabby hotels like the $27 dollar a night Savyonei Hagalil in Galilee. “I do not understand why NCPC and Raphael Ben-Hur a man who once served the Israeli Government in the country’s Ministry of Tourism for 15 years thought that was the perfect place to put Nigerian Pilgrims for four (4) good nights,” Coker complained. At Bethlehem, the pilgrims were lodged in a worse hotel, one close to the theater of war, with sounds gun fire heard through the night.

The professionalism of the NCPC staff also came under heavy criticism in the letter. At every stage of the process, Ms. Coker accused NCPC staff of being ‘rude’ and inattentive to the needs of the pilgrims. “I find the attitude of the NCPC rather worrisome,” she lamented. Upon her return to Nigeria, Coker called NCPC to complain. “I called NCPC and spoke with a female staff who told me that pilgrimage is not about comfort,” Ms. Coker wrote. “I know too well that I paid for comfort and NCPC collected money enough to provide me with just that.”

Coker is demanding compensation for poor services she received during last year’s trip to Israel. “NCPC failed to fulfill its obligations to me; I did not get what I paid for and should be grateful to be compensated, accordingly,”