CAC Withdraws Registration Certificate Of Ohaneze, Arewa, Other Groups
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has withdrawn the registration certificate of Ohanaeze Ndigbo General Assembly, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and other socio-cultural groups in Nigeria.
Disclosing this at the weekend in Abuja, the Registrar General of CAC, Mr Garba Abubakar, said the measure was part of the reforms the Commission was putting in place to subject such applications to thorough scrutiny following security threats that may arise from such registrations.
The RG noted that the reforms are a measure put together to sanitise the Commission operations which lead to the recent withdrawal of the certificate of registration earlier issued to Ohaneze Ndigbo General Assembly.
He said: “Yes, we have withdrawn the certificate of Ohanaeze Ndigbo
General Assembly because the certificate should not have been issued in the
first instance.
“We have an established protocol that all organizations; ethnic, religious with
political implication should be referred for security clearance before such
organizations are registered. In 2017, a similar organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo
Worldwide applied to be registered and security agencies rejected it.
“It would have been a double standard to allow another organization to be
registered. Up till now, Arewa Consultative Forum is not registered because
they were not given security clearance, we have South-South Youth Forum,
NorthEast Youth Forum and so many organizations that have not been allowed to
register.
“What we have done after withdrawing the certificate (of Ohanaeze Ndigbo
General Assembly), we now referred the application for security clearance, if
at the end of the day we are advised that this object is consistent with what
the law says, and the trustees are fit and proper, then we will go ahead, but
till then, we have withdrawn the certificate and they have threatened to go to
court, we are lawyers, we will meet them in court.”
Short URL: https://newsrangers.com/?p=54011