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CAN Declares War On El-Rufai

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State is in hot soup as Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) are very bitter with him over the religious bill passed by the State House of Assembly.

It is interesting to know that, the Kaduna State House of Assembly on Friday, June 7th, 2019 passed the bill seeking to ban any public religious activity in the state except a licence is obtained before such public religious event can be organized.

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However, Joseph Hayab, Kaduna State Chairman of CAN, said;

“You don’t make laws with the intent of causing havoc, you make laws with the intent of helping people to unite. You don’t make laws and claiming that the purpose of the law is for peace but the law itself is used to cause a crisis.”

“We are stakeholders in nation building, but when people choose to treat us as if we don’t understand what is happening, then we have to show them that we also have a right.”

“The bill will be tested in the court of law because we are in a democracy, people should not just bring laws from the back door.”

In the same vein, Sunny Akanni, counsel to PFN, said;

“We are surprised that despite the court order restraining the house from continuing with the hearing or anything on the controversial bill pending the determination of the matter, the lawmakers went ahead to pass it.”

“We are going to serve forms 47 and 48 on the house for disobedience of a court order and if they don’t respond, we will charge the clerk and the speaker of the house for contempt of court.”