Paula Baba, a lay member of the Columbans missionary society, spoke out against the bill on 24 June, calling it a form of ""cheap reconciliation"" which totally contradicted the concept of restorative justice. '"Victims would only be compensated if people that had committed crimes against them were granted amnesty. This is cheap reconciliation,"" he said. He said that it gave victims of the coup "second position" behind its perpetrators, and that its true purpose was to protect persons currently in positions of power, so that they could remain in those positions ""without breaking a sweat.""