CSO’s Oppose Nigerian Bill to Regulate Christianity. About 19 members of the CSOs came together to oppose the Nigerian bill to regulate christianity in Nigeria.
Civil Society Organizations (CSO’s) have argued that a measure to establish a National Centre for Christian Education to regulate and set standards for the practice of Christianity in Nigeria lacks validity and should be rejected.
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Senator Binos Yaroe of Adamawa South Senatorial District is the bill’s sponsor, and it has passed second reading in the Ninth Senate.
Sonnie Ekwowusi, a human rights lawyer and leader of CSO’s, said yesterday at a news conference in Lagos that the nine-page bill violates sections 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, and 42 of our 1999 Constitution, as well as Articles 2, 8, 9,17, 18, 27, 28, and 29 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Ratification and Enforcement).
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While noting that the sponsors planned to sensitize on the bill at a summit scheduled for June 22-23, 2023, in Abuja, he said it was absurd that in a multi-religious and secular state like Nigeria, a bill that infringes on citizens’ freedom of thought, conscience, and religion, as well as unjustified state intrusion into the practice of the Christian religion, is considered a priority.
In his remarks, lawyer Ben Abraham stated that the bill’s sponsors have failed to appreciate the separation of the state and church, also known as the separation of religion and government in a presidential democracy in a country like Nigeria.
