CAMA Is Satanic War Against The Church – CAN

By GWG Staff

The Christian Association of Nigeria has rejected the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2020, saying “it would snuff life out of the church and rank the church as a secular institution under secular control”.

The body stated this in a statement issued to the press on Thursday by Adebayo Oladeji, Special Assistant on Media and Communications to CAN President, Rev Samson Ayokunle.

He said that with it the Federal Government would be declaring war on the church by going ahead to implement it.

The body described the law as “satanic” saying section 839 (1) and (2) of the law empowers the supervising minister “to suspend trustees of an association (in this case, the church) and appoint the interim managers to manage the affairs of the association for some given reasons.”

The statement read in part: “The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria rejects outrightly the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2020 that was assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari recently.

“The law, to say the least, is unacceptable, ungodly, reprehensible, and an ill-wind that blows no one any good. It is a time bomb waiting to explode.

“While we are not against the government fighting corruption wherever it may be found, yet we completely reject the idea of bringing the church, which is technically grouped among the NGOs, under control of the government. The Church cannot be controlled by the government because of its spiritual responsibilities and obligations.

“How can the government sack the trustee of a church which it contributed no dime to establish? How can a secular and political minister be the final authority on the affairs and management of another institution which is not political? How can a non-Christian head of government ministry be the one to determine the running of the church? It is an invitation to trouble that the government does not have power to manage.”

The religious body urged the government to “face the business of providing infrastructure for the people. Let them focus on better health provision, food, education, adequate security employment, etc. The government should not be a busy body in a matter that does not belong to it. The government does not have the technical expertise to run the church of God because of its spiritual nature.

“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. If you cannot give us good amenities of life, we would not allow you to take away our liberty to worship our Maker.”

It further enjoined President Buhari to “stop the implementation of the obnoxious and ungodly law until the religious institutions are exempted from it” and “return the law to the National Assembly for immediate amendment”.

GWG reports that President Buhari had on August 7 signed into law, the Companies and Allied Matters Bill, 2020 and Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church Worldwide had urged the Federal Government to remove the part of the law that gives the minister the power to remove the board of trustees of churches without recourse to the court.

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