Following the public criticism that has greeted the proposed anti-preaching law by the Kaduna state government, the Catholic Church of Nigeria has asked the state governor, Nasir El Rufai to thread with caution as no governor can be an emperor.
The Catholic Church’s position was made known by the Director of Caritas International, Rev. Fr Evaristus Bassey, at a press briefing by Caritas International, a department under the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) in Abuja yesterday March 22nd.
Bassey said although the laws are meant to curtail the excesses of religious men in the state, the content of the law appears to be quite overbearing and will hamper the constitutional rights of residents of the state to freedom of religion.
“The fear is that even if the proposed bill contains good aims, the proposed restrictions would play into the hands of officials of state who have a hegemonic mentality and would allow them the freedom to persecute one religion in favour of another. The principle of separation of state and Church/Mosque which springs from the supposed secularity of the Nigerian constitution would
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