CAMA targeted at churches, we’ll do everything to ensure amendment –Oladeji, CAN president’s aide

Pastor Bayo Oladeji, the Special Adviser on Media to the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Rev Supo Ayokunle, expresses CAN’s displeasure with the recently signed Companies and Allied Matters Act in this interview with OLALEYE ALUKO

During President Buhari’s first term in office, I recall very well that the Senate and the House of Representatives conducted a public hearing on the NGOs bill and we were invited. The CAN there and then rejected the NGOs bill. Several other civil societies were there to also kick against it and the bill died at the public hearing.

Some apologists say, after all, it is the courts that will dissolve the boards of trustees and appoint new persons, and not the government. Who says the courts cannot be manipulated? We have been in this country long enough to know that. Look at what is happening at the election tribunals. The Federal High Court says one thing and the state High Court says another thing. The Court of Appeal makes a decision and the Supreme Court reverses it.

Our stand is that we are going to follow every lawful means to make sure that the obnoxious law is amended. The purpose of the law is to bring peace and order and not to cause a crisis. Like I said, the NIREC is also looking at this law. The NIREC, which is the other council comprising CAN and the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs Islamic Affairs, is also looking at the CAMA. We are the two parties which make up NIREC and we will look into it.

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