SUCCESSES AND STILL COUNTING

By Abubakar Usman
elsardyx@yahoo.com

As a wise saying goes, “No matter how big your success is, there is always room for improvement…..and perfection, though seemingly remote, is the goal of the ambitious.
For all progressive minds within and outside the hajj industry, the hallmark of successes in the hajj business in Nigeria has been epitomized remarkably by the
national honors award scored within the sector earlier in the year.
There are some salient issues that need to be highlighted to buttress the real worth of the national honors award scored by a hajj practitioner within the industry-for excellence in the field.
The national honors’ is like a contest among diverse national sectors both the prominent and the less prominent and stemming from uneven chances and positions. Just as it is a contest among several thousands of notable performers around the nation. The tightness of the road leading to becoming an honoree of a nation makes the credentials for such attainment really worth some salt even without any mention.
Also, considering the lowly position of the hajj sector in the scheme of priorities of Nigeria’s political will, any contribution that was able to attract such an a glory to the way of hajj practice most be extraordinarily awful. .
This is what makes that award not just the pride of Mal. Abdullahi Muktar, the executive secretary of Kaduna state Muslim pilgrims welfare board but the pride of Kaduna. It is even more the pride of the Nigerian hajj sector.
But fundamentally and most importantly it is more the pride of the dedicated members of management and staff of the board who are the policy drivers and foot soldiers but the unsung heroes of the successes of the institution. The award simply shows our mutual productivity under the spirited stewardship of the executive secretary. We therefore share fully and directly in the glory just as he dedicated it.
Indeed, it is the contribution of the spirits of right leadership and followership that results in achievements unimagined. It is the prevalence of such a positive spirit in Kaduna state Muslim pilgrims welfare board that has resulted in Kaduna state been an undisputed role model in the hajj business Nigeria over. Is it not a dictum that “Kaduna initiates, innovates and experiments and others adopt? Is it not a thing of pride that other states come to us to under-study the way we operate with a view to improving their operational base just like Niger state did last year? Wise people say you never appreciate your true worth until others come calling or when changes set in. Our achievements for last year’s/hajj can be said to surpass all our ambitions. More grease to our elbows.
As we continue to sow the seeds for better hajj delivery and continue to count our successes, let us exalt with praise of Allah. Indeed he is the beneficent.