Femi Faseru, National Superintendent, Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC), has warned that the Federal Government will only be creating problems in attempting to implement the Companies Allied Matters Act (CAMA).
Faseru advised the government to step down on the execution of the Act for now, stressing that stakeholders should be brought to the table to take a look at the grey areas for them to be well defined so that trust would be built between the church and the government.
While speaking on an electronic media on Friday night, the cleric maintained that the government had not yet got the trust from church stakeholders regarding what it had planned to do with CAMA.
He insisted that the government should get the churches to understand that what it had planned to do would not be to control them.
Faseru said: “If it is about regulation and not control, the church may want to be involved. I agree the church needs to be regulated. They need to make adjustments.
“If it is something about spirituality, then the government does not have any business there. It is not something someone would just wake up and would want to control the church.”
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Faseru stressed that implementation of CAMA would create problems for the government, adding that it would be difficult for the government to have the workforce to manage all the vast branches of churches across the nation.
He said the relationship between the church and the government had not been cordial, maintaining that the relationship had been deficit, even as he expressed concern over the fear in some quarters about the Act being the government’s subtle way to control the church.
“If you sack trustees of churches for suspicion of misconduct, replacing them in the interim with interim managers, who will constitute the interim managers?
“What would be the extent of involvement of interim managers? Are the stakeholders involved in all these arrangements?” Faseru asked.
Comparing it with what obtained in other parts of the world, Faseru said, “Our church in the United Kingdom went through something close, but not similar to this, when they claimed that there was misconduct.
“They came in, but the interim managers were restricted to things that concern the government. They were not involved in issues of spirituality.
“At the end of the day, when they found out that there was no misconduct whatsoever, they handed the governance of the church back to the church.
“It is not similar to what we hear would happen here. We heard trustees would be removed and replaced with interim managers. Who are they and what would they be doing? It is bound to create a big problem in Nigeria,” he said.
