Apostle Johnson Suleman has said that his church will kill any trustees that the Federal Government may appoint for his church with prayer and fasting.
Reacting to the coming on stream of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, he said the government must be mad to have contemplated any possible move to control churches.
Saying it could not even successfully run its own federal ministries, Johnson said government had means of auditing church books without thinking of trusteeship.
He said:
People have been asking me to talk about the CAMA bill, the bill that says the government can just give the church a board of trustee, they can suspend some, and I said why will I talk over nonsense.
The government that will change the board of trustee in this Ministry, that government has not been born. This Ministry? Come now, come and do it.
”You said it’s CAMA law, it’s CAMA bill, what kind of stupid…….have you finished managing the Ministry of Agric? Have you finished managing the Ministry of Works? In this country, the Ministry of Work is not working, then you say it is church…come and try it. There are some things that don’t make sense.
Let us not rule out the fact that many pastors just started church because of money. So what you should talk about is transparency. If you say churches should submit their financial report, I will be the first. I will be so happy because by the time you discover that what they are making a month is 5 million Naira but what the man is spending on people is N60 million, wouldn’t you balance me?
It is not even an educated bill. CAMA bill is an illiteriate bill. You do not appoint a board of trustee who has not been around at all and has no stake to the company.
If you wnat financial sincerity, you want financial transparency, then get auditors to audit them. Tell them to open your books. I don’t have a problem with that but to say you sit down and carry one Northern Muslim and appoint him to become a board of Trustee, you are mad.
”You didn’t contribute to the land. You didn’t contribute to the running of the Ministry, 16 years I have been running the ministry, paying salaries, supporting widows, supporting the poor..then they appoint you a board of trustee. You are mad. We will use fasting and prayers to kill you
