The Religious Preaching
Regulation law, 1984 before the Kaduna State House of Assembly seeking
substitution was on Friday passed into law
The passage of the bill came
three years after the bill faced serious criticism from different religious
bodies and individuals.
The bill, which purpose is to
regulate religious preaching in Kaduna State with a view of promoting religious
harmony and peaceful co-existence amongst the residents of the state was
brought to the House since 2016.
Presiding over the plenary, the
Speaker, Alhaji Aminu Abdullahi Shagali while reading the bill close by close
said a state inter-faith Regulatory council has been established with a
chairman to be appointed by the Governor on the recommendation of the Secretary
to the state.
Also, two members representing
the Christian and Muslim faith, respectively, to be appointed by the Governor,
among others.
According to the Speaker, the
bill further has it that the above mentioned council shall hear and determine
appeals brought before it arising from the decision of the local government
inter-faith Committee and also has power to issue regulations considered
necessary to guide the state inter-faith council and local government
inter-faith committee in the performance of their functions under the bill if
signed into law.
He further mentioned that 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 Inter-faith
Committee has to be established
According to him, the local
Government Inter-faith committee shall consider and recommend to state
Inter-faith 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
explained that all cassettes, compact disks (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 less than N200,000.00 or both.
The bill added that any person
who publicly insults or seeks to incite contempt any religion, by making false
statements in such a manner as to be likely to lead to a breach of peace, shall
be punished with imprisonment for a term of not less than five years a fine of
not less than N100,000.00 or both
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