Senator Ita Enang,Special assistant to the President on Niger Delta Affairs has said controversial Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) 2020 does not target churches and religous bodies as some Nigerians assume.
He argued that sections of the Act being disputed by religous bodies,especially Christians,were not new and had been in the 1990 Act,which was recently amended.
Christian Association of Nigeria(CAN) had recently called on President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend the implementation of the Act.
But Speaking when he led a delegation on a visit to the President of CAN, Rev Dr Samson Ayokunle,to discuss the controversial CAMA 2020 Yesterday in Abuja,Enang said Buhari had no bad intention against Christianity or any other religion, adding that the Act,having become law by assent,only the National Assembly could amend it.
Enang told the CAN President the only option left was to sponsor a bill to the National Assembly to amend the Act.
He recalled that incorporated Trustees or Law of Trust was regulated by Companies and Allied Matter Act 1990 before the National Assembly passed CAMA 2020 and the President assented to it.
He said the President had withheld assent to the amendment over disputed sections but later signed the Act into law when it seemed the conflict areas were cleared.
He argued that the Act,having become a law,could not be tampered with by the President except CAN sponsored an amendment bill to amen sectors it considered offensive.
Comfort Chigue, The CAN Director of Legal services,however,noted that from the reactions of Stakeholders,it seemed the Act did not recieve input from interest groups or failed to accomodate their views.
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