When you register your business or organization as a charity or NGO, it means that whatever funds that comes in and goes is for the public and NOT for your personal use. You are accountable to the public. In exchange the government exempts you from paying tax. That is how it works
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Also, the government has the power to monitor and regulate such tax exempt organisations to make sure that the funds raised are for the public as stipulated and not misappropriated or diverted for personal use.
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This is how it works globally, including the UK, US etc.
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Religious organizations and their businesses worldwide also register as charities and NGOs and that is why no church, mosque etc or any of their establishments pays tax.
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Now it is the duty of the government to regulate these bodies who don't pay tax by making sure that the funds they generate rightly goes back to the public and not for personal gain.
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This is the reason why CAMA was created
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Now the question is why are only the Pentecostal pastors shouting? Why is the Catholic Church not complaining? Why are the rest Orthodox and Presbyterian churches not complaining? Because I don't get it, these same pastors shouting here all have branches abroad and they dutifully obey the laws there like lambs but when they come to Nigeria they want to be lawless.
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These same pastors rejecting CAMA now have all been involved in fraud due to misappropriation of funds in the UK.
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Ashimolowo was sanctioned by the UK government over fraud. CAMA was what gave him out!
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Oyedepo is banned from entering the UK because of fraud and diversion of church funds. CAMA was what gave him out!
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Pastor Chris Oyakhilome also...
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These people know that once you implement CAMA here as is obtainable in the UK and the rest, they are finished and that's why they are fighting and kicking. This is why rather than fight the law through the right channels using legal means, they employed the best way they know how– religious sentiments! It works on their members like charm! They claim it's an attack against the church as if the lawmakers who signed the bill into law after the 1st, 2nd and 3rd reading are all pagans. Nonsense
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Well, I've got news for these folks and their compatriots... CAMA is here to stay and asides wailing your lungs out, there's absolutely nothing you can do. If you don't like it go and create your own country!

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Religious Organizations are registered as the name implies. They are not charities nor are they NGOs. They are at most Associations.

There is nothing like freedom of charity or NGO in the constitution but we have constitutional provision shielding religion from government attack or undue interference.

The government has a right to regulate any association, NGO or organization that seems to be ripping off its members.

The only problem is, the government in Nigeria is more corrupt than the organizations they want to regulate.

thesicilian:
The government has a right to regulate any association, NGO or organization that seems to be ripping off its members.

The only problem is, the government in Nigeria is more corrupt than the organizations they want to regulate.

you make the right point

Many Christians are oblivious of the fact that earthly blessing fades as the time fly away, what would you possibly achieve with the blessing of mortal namely money and wealth and luxury of man kind, compared to eternal project being executed by God Almighty through CHRIST JESUS and by us.


There is this question God Almighty ask folks in the scriptures

Psalms 50:21. You have done all this, and I have said nothing, so you thought that I am like you. But now I reprimand you and make the matter plain to you.




You know sometimes, men seems, they are wiser than the Almighty in their thoughts and imaginations. Our LORD is supreme and he works in ways we can never see.



Listen, my people, there is all times project going on in the space of life, it's called building a spiritual house with, for and by God Almighty where he will live, work and walk with man, the son's of men.


And so, this is it.

19. So then, you Gentiles are not foreigners or strangers any longer; you are now citizens together with God's people and members of the family of God.

Ephesians 2: 20. You, too, are built upon the foundation laid by the apostles and prophets, the cornerstone being Christ Jesus himself.

21. He is the one who holds the whole building together and makes it grow into a sacred temple dedicated to the Lord.

22. In union with him you too are being built together with all the others into a place where God lives through his Spirit.


Another apostle reiterated the plan of God Almighty




Ephesians 2:4. Come to the Lord, the living stone rejected by people as worthless but chosen by God as valuable.

5. Come as living stones, and let yourselves be used in building the spiritual temple, where you will serve as holy priests to offer spiritual and acceptable sacrifices to God through Jesus Christ.

6. For the scripture says, *I chose a valuable stone, which I am placing as the cornerstone in Zion; and whoever believes in him will never be disappointed.*

7. This stone is of great value for you that believe; but for those who do not believe: *The stone which the builders rejected as worthless turned out to be the most important of all.*

8. And another scripture says, *This is the stone that will make people stumble, the rock that will make them fall.* They stumbled because they did not believe in the word; such was God's will for them.

9. But you are the chosen race, the King's priests, the holy nation, God's own people, chosen to proclaim the wonderful acts of God, who called you out of darkness into his own marvelous light.

10. At one time you were not God's people, but now you are his people; at one time you did not know God's mercy, but now you have received his mercy.


GOD ALMIGHTY doesn't live in your churches



Yes, He does not live in a house built by human hands, oh yes, He lives in the eternal palace created and being built by his Spirit which is sent down from heaven above.



Acts 7:46. He won God's favor and asked God to allow him to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

47. But it was Solomon who built him a house.

48. *But the Most High God does not live in houses built by human hands; as the prophet says,

49. 'Heaven is my throne, says the Lord, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house would you build for me? Where is the place for me to live in?

50. Did not I myself make all these things?'



Acts 17:24. God, who made the world and everything in it, is Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands.

25. Nor does he need anything that we can supply by working for him, since it is he himself who gives life and breath and everything else to everyone.



Get, to work immediately and begin massive soul project, bringing men and women to the throne of grace, to be built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets. So that when the work is done, the angels of God Almighty will proclaim....







Revelations 19:6. Then I heard what sounded like a crowd, like the sound of a roaring waterfall, like loud peals of thunder. I heard them say, *Praise God! For the Lord, our Almighty God, is King!

7. Let us rejoice and be glad; let us praise his greatness! For the time has come for the wedding of the Lamb, and his bride has prepared herself for it.

8. She has been given clean shining linen to wear.* (The linen is the good deeds of God's people.)

9. Then the angel said to me, *Write this: Happy are those who have been invited to the wedding feast of the Lamb.* And the angel added, *These are the true words of God.*


Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah.


This is our desire, it's our delight and we are passionate about this, it doesn't matter what the world think about us.


Listen to Jesus Christ speak...



John4:31. In the meantime the disciples were begging Jesus, *Teacher, have something to eat!*

32. But he answered, *I have food to eat that you know nothing about.*

33. So the disciples started asking among themselves, *Could somebody have brought him food?*

34. *My food,* Jesus said to them, *is to obey the will of the one who sent me and to finish the work he gave me to do.

35. You have a saying, 'Four more months and then the harvest.' But I tell you, take a good look at the fields; the crops are now ripe and ready to be harvested!

36. The one who reaps the harvest is being paid and gathers the crops for eternal life; so the one who plants and the one who reaps will be glad together.

37. For the saying is true, 'Someone plants, someone else reaps.'

38. I have sent you to reap a harvest in a field where you did not work; others worked there, and you profit from their work.*

I don't know what National Orientation Agency is doing.

Before such laws are passed, it is the duty of NOA to orientate Nigerians and let them into what it is about.

You don't just pass sensitive laws without proper orientation of the people.

I can bet that many ordinary Nigerians who are against this law don't know what it entails, the only point religion capitalists have been hammering on and telling their congregants is the fact that FG will start appointing Managers over Churches since they know that this will definitely not go well with the masses whose religion is their opium and they will kick against such law.
It is the duty of NOA to enlighten the people about the law, let them know that the Government trying to hold their religious leaders accountable.

What is even the work of NOA in Nigeria
That Agency is so useless and I think it is not being properly monitored.

Charmingrascal:
I don't know what National Orientation Agency is doing.

Before such laws are passed, it is the duty of NOA to orientate Nigerians and let them into what it is about.

You don't just pass sensitive laws without proper orientation of the people.

I can bet that many ordinary Nigerians who are against this law don't know what it entails, the only point religion capitalists have been hammering on and telling their congregants is the fact that FG will start appointing Managers over Churches since they know that this will definitely not go well with the masses whose religion is their opium and they will kick against such law.
It is the duty of NOA to enlighten the people about the law, let them know that the Government trying to hold their religious leaders accountable.

What is even the work of NOA in Nigeria
That Agency is so useless and I think it is not being properly monitored.

You have said it all. Best comment so far