The Kaduna State House of Assembly on Friday passed the Religious Preaching Regulation bill into law.

The new Religious Preaching Regulation law substitutes similar law of 1984 in the state.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Executive Bill, brought to the Assembly in 2016, was passed hours before the eighth Assembly was dissolved on Friday.

The bill had been with the assembly three years and had been opposed by Muslim and Christian bodies as well as individuals across the state.

The state government had in 2016 argued the bill was meant to regulate religious preaching in order to promote religious harmony and peaceful coexistence not to stipple religious freedom.

The Speaker of the Assembly, Alhaji Aminu Shagali, presided over the sitting during which the bill was passed after it was read clause by clause.

It provides for the establishment of an Interfaith Regulatory Council at the state level and committees at local government levels responsible for screening and issuing licence to preachers.

The councils will have two representatives each of Christian and Islamic bodies among other members.

According to the speaker, the new law has mandated the council to hear and determine appeals to be brought before it arising from the decision of the local government interfaith committees.
The Council also has power to issue regulations considered necessary to guide the local government interfaith committees in the performance of their functions as provided under the bill, if signed into law.

“The bill when signed into law, stipulates that in each of the 23 local Government areas of the state, a committee to be known as the Local Government Interfaith Committee has to be established.

“The Local Government Interfaith Committee shall consider and recommend to state Interfaith Regulation Council all applications for the grant of licence to religious preachers as well as screen and recommend preachers for the grant of license among other functions.

“The supplementary provision provides that all cassettes, CDs, flash drives or any other communication gadgets containing religious recordings from accredited preachers may be played inside a private dwelling unit or vehicle, entrance porch (zaure), church, mosque and any other designated place of worship.

“It further stated that any person who plays religious cassette or uses a loud speaker for religious purposes between the hours of 11pm to 4am in a public place, and uses a loudspeaker for religious purposes other than inside church or mosque commits an offence and shall on conviction be liable to imprisonment for a term of not less than two years or pay a fine of not less than N200,000 or both.”

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“The supplementary provision provides that all cassettes, CDs, flash drives or any other communication gadgets containing religious recordings from accredited preachers may be played inside a private dwelling unit or vehicle, entrance porch (zaure), church, mosque and any other designated place of worship.

In other words, the CDs, DVDs and all digital media messages of preachers from other regions and states outside Kaduna would be ILLEGAL (and may actually be burnt) in Kaduna state. Yet, the same hypocrites would come here and condemn the anti-grazing laws passed in predominantly agrarian middle belt and southern states.

"One Nigeria" my foot.

I'm not a lawyer, but I do know that religious freedom is both constitutional right and a human right in Nigeria. So, setting up a state controlled bureaucracy to regulate who should or should not preach is unlawful, illegal and unconstitutional.

But more importantly, this is a definite foundation for fascism.

You guys should restructure the country asap or else disintegrate it. If you continue like this, you'd not survive or make any progress even in a thousand years.

How does the state law affect Churches registered by CAC to preach anywhere in Nigeria and the constitutional provision for freedom of religion.

Useless dwarf governor.

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Watch as "so call" Christians will take it personal

This is a very good one
I kind of like elrufai and his policies

Keep it up jare

pchukwudi:




In other words, the CDs, DVDs and all digital media messages of preachers from other regions and states outside Kaduna would be ILLEGAL (and may actually be burnt) in Kaduna state. Yet, the same hypocrites would come here and condemn the anti-grazing laws passed in predominantly agrarian middle belt and southern states.

"One Nigeria" my foot.

I'm not a lawyer, but I do know that religious freedom is both constitutional right and a human right in Nigeria. So, setting up a state controlled bureaucracy to regulate who should or should not preach is unlawful, illegal and unconstitutional.

But more importantly, this is a definite foundation for fascism.

You guys should restructure the country asap or else disintegrate it. If you continue like this, you'd not survive or make any progress even in a thousand years.

Bro u re off point on this.

How does an unrestructured Nigeria affect the efficacy or the need for a state to enact law to suit its priorities?

Also, tell me, what has our decades of religious freedom brought us?

It is high time every state begins to do this, that is why we re a federation

It's either you don't know what you are supporting, or you don't have value for liberty.

NOETHNICITY:
Bro u re off point on this.

How does an unrestructured Nigeria affect the efficacy or the need for a state to enact law to suit its priorities?

Also, tell me, what has our decades of religious freedom brought us?

It is high time every state begins to do this, that is why we re a federation

pchukwudi:
It's either you don't know what you are supporting, or you don't have value for liberty.

Over the course of 3decades, there has been too many unnecessary avoidable blood shed in kd due to inciting sermons emanating from many religious center.

I think government regulation of religious preaching is long over due

if u re not OK with, leave the 'zoo'

You are absolutely clueless.

The one who coined your choice word "zoo" is a religious leader. No one would license him to preach anywhere - not even in Aba - if he needed a license to do so.

Besides, who would be in the license granting panel? Atheists? Irreligious officials? Representatives of established religious orders? Where is the verifiable evidence that there won't be bias and prejudices in the approval processes?

Dude, look at the history, the highest levels of mass murder worldwide is committed by REPRESSIVE governments everywhere and every darn time.

Stupidly supporting government regulation of your human right is actually giving them ammunition to mess you up in the near future. Dumb.

The so called act is nothing but mere prerequisite to legalized religious exclusion, witch hunt, and large scale persecution.

NOETHNICITY:
Over the course of 3decades, there has been too many unnecessary avoidable blood shed in kd due to inciting sermons emanating from many religious center.

I think government regulation of religious preaching is long over due

if u re not OK with, leave the 'zoo'