CSOs Prepare for Senate Public Hearing on CAMA Amendment

Civil society organisations (CSOs) from across Nigeria met at a Public Consultative meeting organised by Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) with support from the European Union and the British Council’s EU-ACT project, to discuss the provisions of a bill to amend the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA), 2020. At the meeting which held in Abuja on Monday, 21^st February 2022, civil society groups extensively discussed the proposed amendments to CAMA as it relates to the operations of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), contained in a Senate bill (SB 904) sponsored by Senator Ibrahim Oloriegbe. At the meeting, CSOs proffered suggestions and made inputs for a common position to be presented during the Public Hearing on the bill, set for mid-March 2022. The Consultative meeting also had representatives from the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), a representative from the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), etc. The meeting agreed that there was a need to review the controversial section 839 of CAMA, which provides for the arbitrary suspension of trustees and appointment of interim managers for NGOs.