1. Morning friends. On this CAMA Act, I finally have to agree with myself that we have a critical mass of Nigerians that are "upside down" thinkers & this cohort is led sadly by people who ought to know better. I took a look at the website of @SERAPNigeria and the roll call ehn/

2. The roll call is full of lawyers. The known ones o...the Human Rights SANs. The founder is a lawyer, the Board of Advisers of whatever have many lawyers (many of them I know very very well). https://serap-nigeria.org/board/  . First that website is a jumble of confusion. I am not sure/

that SECRAP actually knows what it is all about. They are like a bull in a china shop-their horns are just out marauding & causing all sorts of confusion. Now follow my logic a bit:
CAMA is passed into Law by @nassnigeria. It is an amendment of an Act that has existed since 2004/

4. Prior to that 2004, another law was in place. You see CAMA regulates all Non-Human juristic persons. Companies that function as separate entities that can sue & be sued in their corporate names. CAMA regulates the formation of Business names, Ltd liability coys-private/public/

5. Companies limited by Guarantee and of course our dear friends-the Incorporated Trustees. Now, let us examine the profile of Incorporated Trustees in Nigeria. I must tell you that many companies use Limited by Guarantee or Incorporated Trustees but the effect is largely same/

6. So we have companies such as MTN Foundation, Nigeria Conservation Foundation, Tony Elumelu Foundation, Stephen Oluwole Awokoya Foundation etc- Pacelli Schools, Grange Education, Corona Trust (Corona Schools) etc. Can you imagine the magnitude of the folly of SECRAP?/

7. Coming from that height of seriousness, let us go down to another level of engagement of Community Development Associations (CDAs), Residents Associations, Neighbourhood clubs, Big clubs like Ikoyi Club, Lagos Country Club, Polo Club, etc and of course, 'Baba Suwe' Club ()/

8. And then we have of course the general busybodies in the fray-the EIE, Human Rights, get-in-your-face SECRAP and so on and so forth.
You can see that the new CAMA is not about the NGOs or Churches alone. I forgot to say that Churches are also registered under the same CAMA/

9. You will see that this law regulates many many many types of associations. MUSON is another top notch one. So who is the constituency of SECRAP? Who has briefed them? This is why we must rise up to resist this nuisance. If an organisation that boasts of legal minds is acting/

10. irresponsibly, should we allow their derailing agenda? Share incongruity that @SERAPNigeria will not know the following:
(a) That a law that has passed through 2 legislative arms and been signed by the President is a law and as such is not illegal;
(b) That the President////

cannot withdraw his assent (whatever that even means). This group populated by lawyers is asking the President to commit an assault of the Constitution of Nigeria which he swore to defend.
(c) That only the Courts can decide whether any part of that law offends the Constitution/

(d) That the other cause open is for the NASS to amend the Act.

11. So SECRAP calling people to disobey that law is an illegality in itself and that being a nuisance on matters which actually help Nigeria to be transparent is a disservice to Nigeria.

12. Some of the parameters for measuring ease of doing business is the quality of our laws on accountability. Nigerian NGOs go a-begging abroad. In the US, NGOs MUST register as a foreign agent if they receive grants or donations from abroad. In Nigeria, what FGN has done is ask/

13. for accountability. Why make it about Churches or NGOs only. Your Residents Association that steal your monies are also covered by this law. What CAMA has done is to put power of the ombudsman in the hands of members of these groups. You have been made watchdogs of your/

14. common patrimony. No DG of Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) that operates CAMA will come into your NGO or Church if no one raises a case of fraud or mismanagement against the Board of Trustees. As Yorubas would say, "ti ogiri o ba lanu, alangba o le ko si".

15. I will end with this. Always when FGN does something to give power to the people and deepen the very factors that improve us as a society, we the people shoot it down ignorantly and foolishly often. The second Yoruba adage that is fitting is "won ngba adie lowo iku, oni won o

16. je ki oun lo si ori akitan".
Ponder on how we are such a cohort of upside down thinkers and ask yourself which part you are playing in damaging Nigeria.
Have a good day you ALL