The executive secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC), Yakubu Pam, has pledged to prioritise staff welfare and enhance the commission’s system before the end of his tenure.

Mr Pam pledged while addressing journalists on the sideline of the third anniversary of his appointment on Friday in Abuja.

He said experiences garnered in surmounting challenges in the past three years would be used to entrench a system that would ensure the smooth running of the commission.

“In the next two years we have ahead of us, we plan to improve the welfare of staff; we know that this commission was part of the foreign affairs ministry.

“The package for foreign affairs staff is not what we have in the commission; they should be going on pilgrimage and have estacodes

“Since 2022, the federal government had stopped that, therefore, the package needs to be reviewed upward to the standard of other staff in the federal civil service,” he said.

Earlier, NCPC national commissioner, Vincent Olatunji, said Mr Pam has repositioned the commission and “things are being done right”.

Mr Olatunji commended the executive secretary for mediating peace in southern Kaduna and enhancing Christian pilgrimage.

(NAN)