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CAMA: Aggrieved Pastors And Church Leaders Should Approach National Assembly – VP Osinbajo

Tobias Sylvester
By Tobias Sylvester
Published: August 28, 2020
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has asked pastors and church leaders, who are aggrieved over the Company and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) 2020, to approach the National Assembly for amendment.

CAMA: Aggrieved Pastors And Church Leaders Should Approach National Assembly – VP Osinbajo 1

KanyiDaily recalls that President Muhammadu Buhari had signed CAMA into law on August 7, 2020. The law gives the government power to remove the board of trustees of churches without recourse to the court.

However, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), religious leaders and pastors had rejected the law which they described as a declaration of war against the church.

Reacting to the controversy during 60th Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Osinbajo advised religious leaders who have an axe to grind with the CAMA law to forward their proposals to the National Assembly for an amendment.

The vice-president, who is a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), said the church leaders can seek redress at parliament, since “We are in a democracy.”

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“It is the Incorporated Trustees Section of the Companies and Allied Matters Act that has become controversial. And because churches are charities, provisions in the Incorporated Trustees Section obviously affect churches,” he said.

“What the churches are concerned about is the provision that says in the event that some wrongdoing is found or perpetrated by the trustees of a particular organisation or church, the Registrar-General can go to court, get an order to appoint interim trustees for the church or for whichever organisation that be, to manage the affairs of such a trust.

“The concern of the churches is that it could lead to a situation where practically anybody could be appointed as a trustee to oversee a church. And a church or a mosque or a religious organisation, is obviously a spiritual organisation. If you do not belong or you do not share that faith or have any faith at all, you may be the wrong person and the wrong person may be appointed and create more trouble than was initially the matter before the trustees were appointed.

“My view and what I have also suggested to several of the groups that I have spoken to and the leaderships that I have spoken to is that we have a process by which this can be redressed.

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“What can be done is that whatever the proposal for the amendment may be, whatever the views of the church leadership may be regarding the question of how trustees, should be put into a proposal and forwarded to the National Assembly for consideration of an amendment to the law. That is a process that is entirely open and I believe that is a process that ought to be pursued where citizens have serious concerns. We are in a democracy; there is a process for which that can be done.

“Yes, the controversy has generated a lot of fervour but the solution to me seems also quite evident.”

When asked why Nigerian pastors are allegedly refusing to be accountable when some of them, who have churches in the United Kingdom and some other countries, obey similar laws as CAMA, Osinbajo said:

“As a general position, I do not think it is right to say that pastors do not want to be accountable. As a matter of fact, as you know I am a pastor, I know that question is also partly directed to me. But I must say that is not the case. I believe that several Christian organisations and pastors are willing to be accountable.

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“I think the problem they may have is with ensuring that processes are not abused in such a way to compromise the entire organisation.

“I think if all that is required is some process of accountability, I think it will be easier for some organisations to accept that. But where there might be a takeover of the management of the organisation, I think there may be fears as to whether such may be abused and really what may be done is to put in place checks and balances to ensure there is no abuse in the event that such provisions are activated in any way. But I don’t think it is a matter of pastors being afraid of accountability.”

KanyiDaily recalls that the presiding bishop of Living Faith Church Worldwide, David Oyedepo, had also kicked against CAMA, questioning the rationality behind subjecting churches to the same laws as companies.

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