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CAC Blames Slow Service On Data-Base Cleaning
The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has said in Abuja on Wednesday, that the slow pace of services at the commission was as a result of the cleaning of its database.
Mr Churchill Williams, the Public Relation Officer of CAC, said this in an interview with newsmen during a protest last Wednesday, by lawyers working with the commission The lawyers are protesting the delay in processing their applications.
Williams explained that ongoing cleaning of the commission’s database affected the processing of requests entered into the system before the commencement of the cleaning exercise.
According to him, the protesters did not complain in writing to the commission over the issue of slow services.
He said the management had explained to its customers that the issue was being resolved and that all measures were being put in place to clear the backlog of “name availability and CTC of documents’’ by Friday.
Williams also said that other identified problems would also be addressed as soon as possible.
Mr Donald Okogbiye, a legal professional, said that they were protesting inefficient services at the CAC.
According to him, when lawyers put in availability of a name for registration or incorporation of a company, a process that is supposed to take two days now lasts for three to four weeks”.
“ You do your filing and you wait for the certificate, you now queue for two months and you are not even sure when you are going to get it. Your clients often get the impression that you have misapplied or misappropriated their money, your reputation as a corporate lawyer is at stake,’’ Okogbiye said.
“It is our opinion that at this age and time, the CAC should be able to use information technology whereby lawyers can go to cyber café for net check there, we can even pay by using ATM,’’ he said.
“We have complained and we feel that CAC is not responding enough to our demand that is why we are embarking on this peaceful protest,” the lawyer added.