A total of 953,136 Tabung Haji depositors have registered for the haj pilgrimage this year, with 25,282 of them from Sabah.

Minister in the Chief Minister’s Department Nasir Sakaran said Tabung Haji currently had about 7.7 million depositors, with Sabah residents accounting for 359,153 of them.

“As of June, 427 depositors from the state have been selected for the pilgrimage this year and the figure is expected to rise in the near future,” he said replying to a question from Syed Abas Syed Ali (BN-Balung), at the state assembly sitting in Kota Kinabalu today.

- Bernama