The Islamic Movement in Nigeria is not registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission and is, therefore, not recognised as a legal entity neither is it a juristic body,
A search on the CAC portal showed that the IMN does not exist on the commission’s database. Also, its other names – Muslim Brotherhood and Ikhwan al-Muslimin – were not found in the database of the CAC. A spokesman for the IMN, Abdurrahman Abubakar, confirmed to our correspondent on the telephone that the IMN was not registered with the CAC. Abubakar said the IMN was a movement like Catholicism, Protestantism and Pentecostalism hence it needed not be registered. He, however, explained that the IMN had schools, foundations, and other institutions which were duly registered with the commission. The IMN spokesman said, “The IMN is a movement, it is an idea so it cannot be registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission but we have organs that are registered like schools and foundations. These ones are registered with the commission. “We also have associations that are registered with the CAC. The IMN is a concept, an idea that cannot be registered. You cannot register something that is not a substance. “Do you register Catholicism or Protestantism? No. But they can have churches or organisations that are registered with the CAC. We remain a law-abiding movement and we have the right under the constitution to worship freely.”
Source: punch
