PFN Rejects Bill Seeking to Ban Bus Preaching, Hawking, Says it Threatens Religious Freedom

• Urges Tinubu to withhold assent, return legislation for wider consultation

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Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has rejected the proposed Federal Road Safety Corps (Amendment) Bill, 2026, which seeks to prohibit preaching and hawking in commercial buses, describing the legislation as an infringement on citizens’ constitutional rights to freedom of expression and religion.

The Christian body also stated that the proposed ban unfairly targeted Christians, who were widely known to evangelise in public buses.

PFN Rejects Bill Seeking to Ban Bus Preaching, Hawking, Says it Threatens Religious Freedom

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