CAMA: A Corrupt APC Government can't regulate Church Activities

National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, has reacted to the Presidential assent of the bill amending the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) 2004.

In a recent interview, Secondus condemned the signing of the bill into law, saying that a government as corrupt as the Buhari administration cannot regulate church activities. The PDP leader advised the government to focus on more pressing issues rather than interfere in church activities.

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He, however, called on the National Assembly to review the CAMA Act, 2020 as quickly as possible to end the controversies it had caused.

“We note the curious rush to pass and sign this controversial law by the National Assembly and the president and wonder why such speed cannot be seen in critical laws like the amendment and quick signing of the Electoral Act.

“I find this needless, especially at this time when a government that is confronted with myriads of problems and with loopholes in every government department they cannot block wants to look into the finances of religious places as their priority.

“Has any church or mosque complained about financial misappropriation? And even if they did, these religious houses have internal mechanisms of resolving their problems, including changing their leaders. It is not for a government that is engrossed in corruption to do it for them.

“As a Nigerian, I will add a few words on the raging debate on the newly signed controversial law, the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA).

“The new law permits the Registrar-General of Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and the supervising minister to strictly supervise and scrutinise the financial operations of non-governmental organisations, including religious places, as well as change their trustees. The government and the National Assembly should revisit this law, because the nation’s numerous challenges need the goodwill of the people, especially, the praying houses.”