The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says that the Muhammadu Buhari administration should be more concerned about blocking Ioopholes in every department of government rather than the “needless” focus on religious centres through the amended Company and Allied Matters Acts (CAMA).
National Chairman of PDP, Prince Uche Secondus stated this while addressing party leaders at its National Secretariat, Abuja on Friday.
He said that the government has no business scrutinising financial operations of churches and other Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) or changing their trustees.
Recall that President Buhari on August 7 signed into law the CAMA Bill 2020 to replace CAMA 1990.
However, many Christian leaders have kicked against the amendment, especially Section 839 (1) and (2) of the law which 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.”
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Reacting to the amendment, Secondus said, “I find this needless especially at this time that 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.