Lawyers protest against poor services at CAC

Business activities at the headquarters of the Corporate Affairs Commission in Abuja was paralysed for proximate to two hours on Monday as lawyers stormed the organisation to protest what they described as poor accommodations.

Monday’s protest came about seven months after the lawyers similarly disrupted activities at the CAC in February over poor accommodations.

One of the protesting lawyers, who gave his designation as Kenneth Osaze, told our correspondent during the protest that the accommodations being rendered by the commission were getting worse.

He verbally expressed, “The Registrar-General and his management team should resign since they cannot meet up with their promises. We have lost clients and revenue yet, there has not been any explication from the CAC.

“There is virtually nothing transpiring in the commission. Lawyers now lose clients; we now appear homogeneous to fools to our clients. On name search and availability, we have inserted for this procedure for over two months now and it still has not come.

“In fact, someone fainted in the queue waiting for name search. For six weeks now, we have been in line and nothing has transpired.”

Reacting to the allegations, the Registrar-General, CAC, Mr. Bello Mahmud, gainsaid that some accommodations had been paralysed for two months, but admitted that there had been issues in the past a fortnight.

Mahmud verbalized, “The reason for this is that the vendor the commission was utilizing shut the commission’s system down, making the system inaccessible, and that was as anon as he got part payment for the work he had done.

“He did that because the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr. Olusegun Aganga, brought in an incipient company to manage the software of the commission; and now that the commission is switching to an incipient software, we had an acquiescent with the old vendor that we would perpetuate our contract with his company, but he still went ahead and shut down the system,

“I gave him a good assurance, even wanting to go into an indited acquiescent with him, but he was not convinced. I assured him that we would perpetuate to do business, but he still went ahead and shut the system, as he could not imagine someone else coming with an incipient software to surmount his job.

“Luckily, the CAC has a database, which the incipient vendor utilized for installation; that is what has availed the commission.”