CAMA: Top Three Statements From Three Popular Clergymen

As the fireworks between the Federal Government which has vowed to implement the Company and Allied Matters Act, CAMA, 2020 and religious organisation which have described the Section 839 of the Act as “an anti-Christ law from the pit of hell”, continue, here are the top three statements from clergymen which many believed would change the tide of things on the long run.

BISHOP DAVID OYEDEPO

The first clergy to spit fire against the controversial bill was Bishop David Oyedepo of Living Faith Church widely known as Winners Chapel. Despite the huge criticism that greeted his statement, he remained undaunted. Here is the controversial statement….

 “In the document, they said the registrar-general can remove the trustees without recourse to the court. Don’t try it. This must be from somebody who woke up from the wrong side of the bed after dreaming. The person must have drafted that aspect in the bill as their custom is. Oyedepo had said: “In the document, they said the registrar-general can remove the trustees without recourse to the court. Don’t try it. This must be from somebody who woke up from the wrong side of the bed after dreaming. The person must have drafted that aspect in the bill as their custom is. “I am 51 years old in this thing (Christianity), don’t try it. I have been with Jesus for some time and I am sent as a prophet to nations. That a minister can remove the trustees and close the accounts of the church is.”

PRIMATE AYODELE

Primate Elijah Ayodele, the founder of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church on his part  has stated that nobody can CAMA his church or take over the leadership.

Primate Ayodele disclosed this while  reacting to the recently amended Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) 2020.

In an exclusive interview he granted Legit TV during the public launch of his new book(titled ‘Warning to the nations’), the fiery respected preacher noted that he built the church with his labour for many years.

His words

: “They have not born that person, nobody. Are you the one who bought the land, built the building, the church that I used my money to finance, my sweat, they can’t try it in my own church.

“May be you’re the one the God called, you will tell me. When all my investment, all my life, my soul, my energy, my blood is in the church. Ah! forget CAMA.

“May be churches that are very rich, they can go and CAMA them, nobody can CAMA my church for me oo, nobody, no president, no governor, come and try, come and try it, let them come and take over nah.

PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye in his response, told Vanguard that his position is not diametrically different from the stands of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN. In an interview, the Head of Media and Public Relations, Pastor Olaitan Olubiyi said:
 “The stand of the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God and the leadership of the church on issues like this is not always different from whatever the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN. “We always align ourselves with whatever the stand of the leadership of CAN and PFN on issues like this. The Redeemed Christian Church of God does not take any decision that is at variance with the stand of CAN and PFN and the same thing applies concerning this very issue.

Daddy will not take a stand different from the ones of the two organisations, CAN and PFN. CAN and PFN have spoken on the issue of CAMA and as far as the Redeemed Christian Church of God is concerned that is our position too. We are in alignment with that stand,” the RCCG spokesman said.