CAMA: Abide By Rules Or Create Your Country, Presidency to Oyedepo

President Muhammadu Buhari’s aide on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, has attacked the founder and presiding Bishop of Living Faith Church Worldwide, David Oyedepo, for speaking against the Company and Allied Matters Acts just assented to by the President.

Oyedepo had while speaking in his church described as illegal the power given to a minister to remove a trustee and close the accounts of the church without legal backing.

He said, “Who was Paul persecuting? The church! Who said, “I’m the one you are persecuting?” Jesus! This country is going too far and it’s a risk. I saw something on CAMA (Company Allied Matters Act) and they put religious bodies there that Registrar-General can remove trustees without a recourse to the court. Don’t try it!”

Meanwhile, responding to the issue, Onochie said, “I hope this is not true. If it is, Oyedepo will have to manufacture his own country and live by his own laws.

“As long as he lives and operates within the entity called Nigeria, he will live by Nigerian rules and laws. He will do as he’s told by the law. Enough of lawlessness.”

CAMA provides that religious bodies and non-governmental organisations will be strictly regulated by the Registrar-General of Corporate Affairs Commission and a supervising minister.

The new law has been widely criticized by lawyers, business owners, economists, religious bodies and even the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) describing it as anti-peoples’ law.