CAN Rejects CAMA, Says Churches Can’t Be Controlled By Government
CAN President, Rev. Samuel Ayokunle . The Christian Association of Nigeria wants the Companies and Allied Act, 2020, amended.The Christian Association of Nigeria has rejected “outrightly” the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2020, which was signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari on August 7.
In its statement on Thursday, CAN made clear that its grouse was not with efforts by the government to fight corruption but a section of the Act that contained what it said amounted to an attempt to bring churches under government control. Based on its position, the association expects the federal government to change course and amend the law.
“If the government is bent on imposing a law on us which the entire Church in Nigeria is against, then, they have declared war on Christianity and the agenda to destroy the Church which we have spoken against before now is coming to the open more clearly,” it said. It said, “We recall that during the first term of the President, there was a public hearing conducted by the National Assembly on the Non- Governmental Organisations Bill tagged ‘Bill for an Act To Provide For The Establishment Of The Non-Governmental Organisations Regulatory Commission For The Supervision, Co-ordination And Monitoring Of Non-Governmental Organisations’ which was attended by CAN and many NGOs.
Defending its position against the law, CAN questioned what right the government had to control an institution it did not establish.
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