Federal High Court, Abuja, has barred the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) from suspending or appointing trustees of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and churches.
Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment, held that the provisions of Sections 17 (1), 839 (1) and (7) (a), 842 (1) and (2), 851 and 854 of the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA), 2020 and Regulations 28, 29 and 30 of the Companies Regulations (CR), 2021 were not applicable to CAN and the churches, including mosques, as a religious body.
The judge made seven declarations and an order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendants from taking any step to give effect to the provisions of certain sections of the CAMA 2020. However, he did not make the generic order striking down the sections of the CAMA 2020 as prayed by the plaintiff.
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