CAMA Act: Why CAN sued FG

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has disclosed the reason it sued the Federal Government over the implementation of the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) 2020. According to Joseph Daramola, CAN’s General Secretary, the Christian body took the Federal Government to court to contest some provisions of CAMA, which it is not comfortable with. Daramola listed government’s intention to intervene or interfere with the management of the Church in the country through any of its agencies again. He also listed Section 839 (1) and (2), which empowers the Commission to suspend trustees of an association (in this case, the church) and appoint an interim managers to manage the affairs of the association for some given reasons. On August 7, 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari signed CAMA into law. The law stipulates that religious bodies and charity organisations will be regulated by the Registrar-General of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and a minister. In September, 2020, the Christian body had asked President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend the implementation of the law. CAMA 2020 provides that the commission may by order, suspend the trustees of an association or a religious body and appoint an interim manager or managers to coordinate its affairs, where it reasonably believes that there has been any misconduct or mismanagement, or where the affairs of the association are being run fraudulently, or where it is necessary or desirable for the