The consistent crashing of the company registration portal of the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, is slowing down the implementation of the Federal Government’s Ease of Doing Business policy.
Recall that in 2017, the then acting President, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, had signed an Executive Order on Ease of Doing Business to foster transparency and improve the business environment in the country.
The CAC in 2018 had automated all its operations to pave way for the Small and Medium Enterprises, SMEs, owners to register their businesses with ease and have access to government incentives.
In the light of this, the Commission engaged MainOne, a Lagos-based private firm, to manage its company registration portal.
However, a few years after the migration, stakeholders have continued to lament over what they described as epileptic nature of the services, saying that the portal falls short of their expectations as it crashes more often than not.
The instability of the portal has been causing untold hardship on the accredited agents of the commission who have virtually been shut out of business.
The agents who comprise lawyers, chartered accountants and secretaries are not on the payroll of the commission but depend on the commissions received after handling company registrations for their clients.
One of the agents who did not want her name printed on the newspaper for fear of losing her accreditation, disclosed that the server had crashed seven times within the year 2020.
According to her, the breaking down of the site has made them lose many clients, just as other clients had lost confidence in them for not being able to register companies for them.
She said: “At the moment, no company registration is going on at the CAC. This is the only source of our livelihoods and, as such, we have been subjected to begging and other illicit ways of surviving.”
A staffer at the CAC’s head office, who pleaded anonymity, told NEWSMEN that even the revenue generation of the commission has been dwindling due to the instability of the portal.
According to him, it took the grace of God for the commission to pay salaries and settle other staff obligations during the period.
“The portal has been on and off for the past few months. In fact, throughout the COVID-19 lockdown period, the server had been off. It would only come on and after a few days go off again. MainOne is not competent. They should be changed or cautioned to be up-and-doing.
“Most importantly, I believe there is saboteurs somewhere and the management is not doing enough to arrest the situation.
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Endy Edeson
John; It could be technical or server problems from the ICT company but the problem is reoccurring , they need to fix it asap
Endy Edeson
Ezeoke Evarist Goodevening sir. I am monitoring the portal. It is going off and on. There are some frameworks that are not still functional when customers login to their dashboard . They really need to upgrade the system
Isioma Jessica Ugbebor
No wonder one charge and bail lawyer dey hussle me up and down, thank you oooo Endy for letting me know on time o
Endy Edeson
Isioma Jessica Ugbebor thanks. Can you tell me more about the lawyer? Is he doing registeration for you?
