Again, Buhari govt speaks on targeting Churches with ‘law of CAMA’

The Special Assistant to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Ita Enang on Tuesday debunked speculations that the Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020 was targeted at churches and other religious bodies.

Speaking at a ceremony held at the secretariat of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Abuja, where he was presented the position paper of CAN on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari, Sen. Enang said it was only due to misconceptions and deliberate falsehood by some mischievous persons that had given ground to the ugly believe.

“Misconceptions have enveloped this Act with deliberate misinformation and falsehood by persons who may not have fully and in-fact personally read and digested the provision of the Act. We consider it appropriate and responsible to appear before you and other fora to make these explanations.

“We want to declare as a fact, that the Act does not target churches or religious bodies as wrongly assumed. For an illustration of this, I present a tabular form of the provisions of the 1990 Act which came into force on January 2, 1990, which after more than 30 years of operation has now been repealed and replaced by CAMA 2020.”
Hereunder are the comparative provisions in the two enactments to show particularly that the 2020 Act assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari has not introduced any matter oppressive to the Christian Community or any religion nor any matter discriminatory against any class of persons in Nigeria.” he said.