CAC To Go Electronic From August 10 To Protect Integrity Of Company Certificates

The Corporate Affairs Commission will from August 10 commence the implementation of an electronic system for registration of companies.

CAC Registrar-General, Garba Abubakar, said this at news conference in Abuja while reeling out some key reforms being implemented under his leadership to curtail the spread of the novel corona virus pandemic.

He said with the new measures, company registration certificates would henceforth be sent to customers through courier services or electronically to avoid physical contact with clients.

Alhaji Abubakar said the electronic mailing system would help to speed up the registration process as well as protect the integrity of documents issued by the commission.

He explained that based on global best practice, the process of company registrations are done electronically without physical presence, adding that the era where lawyers storm the Commission to conduct such transactions was over.

“This is an unusual times as the country has been shut for over two months. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, things have not return to normal.

Because our system is not fully electronic, we have to interface with customers as we are expected to carry out registration.

With the restrictions, it’s almost impossible to provide full services the way we did in the past.

For us in CAC, we have 1,310 staff and only 221 of such staff fall in the category of level 14 and above. For the Head Office, these level of workers are just 15 per cent of our workforce.

Every week, we attend to about 500 customers, we are currently working with less than 15 per cent of our workforce and we would not be able to meet up with our service timelines.

We will work efficiently in line with the Covid-19 framework. We have got approvals to get laptops to enable staff work from home” he said.

The Registrar General also noted that  the commission has gotten approval for the purchase of laptops for it staff below level 14 to enable them do their work from home as only skeletal services would be carried out in its office environment.