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SUKKUK Issuance: Unconstitutional, It Is Selling Nigeria Through The Back Door - CAN.

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has once again reacted to the purported planning of Federal Government to introduce SUKKUK. The association made its stand known through a press release signed by the General Secretary, Rev. Dr. Musa Asake. Below is full text of the release: CAN  is compelled to raise a petition and protest against the unrelenting plan of the Federal Government of Nigeria to introduce Islamic financing into a secular state in violation of Section 10 of the Constitution. According to this section in the Constitution, the Nigerian State is Secular and Government is expected to be neutral on issues involving religion. By promoting a sectional religious financial policy, the Government is violating both the spirit and the letter of Section 10 of the Constitution. The Christian Association of Nigeria has been protesting against this aberration since the Osun State Government, under Governor Rafiu Aregbesola embarked on this violation of the Constitut