Company And Allied Matters Acts: Oyedepo Blasts Buhari’s Government

Bishop David Oyedepo has vowed not to allow government to control his church, Living Faith Church Worldwide.

NAIJA NEWS NG reports that Oyedepo said this on Sunday while reacting to the new Company and Allied Matters Acts (CAMA) , which President Buhari signed into law on 7th of August . The Clergy said everyone involved in the creation of this law is taking poison.

Oyedepo said he is waiting for anybody who will appoint a trustee over his church. He said the Government has no power to appoint people over the churches.

“The church is God’s heritage on earth. Molest the wife of somebody and you will see the anger of that person. The church is the bride of Christ. You know how a strong man is when you tamper with his wife. The church is the body of Christ. We are under obligation to give warnings to wicked rulers so we could be free from their blood,” Oyedepo said.

“The church works on the pattern delivered by God not the pattern of man. Government has no power to appoint people over churches. This is a secular nation. The church is the greatest asset of God in this country. Please be warned. Judgment is coming. The Lord says I have been still but now I will arise. Anybody that is in this deal is taking poison. This will never work. I am waiting for a day when anybody will appoint a trustee over this church… You can’t gag anybody. We own this country together.

“It is only in Africa that people who are over 80 years still run around to become president. I know that it is the prosperity of the church that is making them jealous. But I am going to live to see an army of many winners soar greater. In this church shall emerge one of the largest concentration of giants on earth.”

CAMA provides that the commission may by order, suspend the trustees of an association or a religious body and appoint an interim manager or managers to coordinate its affairs where it reasonably believes that there has been any misconduct or mismanagement, or where the affairs of the association are being run fraudulently or where it is necessary or desirable for the purpose of public interest.