Drama: As CAC withdraws certificates of registration of Ohaneze, Arewa

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There was drama today, as the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) announced its withdrawal of Registration Certificates of Ohaneze Ndi Igbo, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and few other cultural groups in Nigeria. 

This shocking development was a bitter pill to swallow for some of the groups, as Ohaneze has threatened legal action, though that does not bother the commission. 

The Registrar-General of the Commission stated that the decisions are part of the measures necessitated by the need to sanitize the Commission's operations. While addressing the press, he stated:

"We have withdrawn the certificate of Ohaneze Ndigbo General Assembly because the certificate should not have been issued in the first instance.  

"We have an established protocol that all organisations; ethnic, religious with political implications should be referred for security clearance before such organisations are registered. In 2017, a similar organisation, Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide applied to be registered and the security agencies rejected it. 

"It would have been a double-standard to allow another organisation 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, North-East Youth Forum, and so many organisations that have not been allowed to register. 

"What we have done after withdrawing the certificate (of Ohaneze 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consistent with what the law says, and the trustees are fit and proper, then we will go ahead, but till then, we have withdrawn the certificate and they have threatened to go to court.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", he concluded. 

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