The RTI Bill will be adopted at the resumption of parliamentary business

Minister of Information, Mr. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah

Two-thirds of the necessary amendments to the adoption of the Right to Information Bill (RTI) have been completed, said Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah.

As a result, he expressed the hope that with the resumption of the work of Parliament as of January 29, 2019, efforts would be accelerated to bring the bill to a "historic conclusion".

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"The parliamentarians who follow the RTI bill, clause by clause, are excited about the progress," he said when the Ghana Journalists Association's (GJA) National Executive paid him a visit. courtesy at his Accra office last Friday.

The delegation invited the Minister to congratulate him on his appointment as Minister of Information and to officially invite him to the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the GJA this year.

The delegation was made up of GJA President Roland Affail Monney and Vice President Linda Asante Agyei and Secretary General Edmund Kofi Yeboah.

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RTI Bill

The RTI Bill, as it has been drafted, must give substance to Article 21 (1) (f) of the Constitution which states that "Everyone has the right to information subject to the qualifications and laws necessary for a democratic society. "

The bill, which has been in Parliament for 22 years and is still in the review stage, has suffered many setbacks, delaying its pbadage.

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The current Parliament, which is the sixth, has made more than 100 amendments to the bill, which has sparked the enthusiasm of Ghanaians for it to be pbaded by the end of last year, but nothing has been done.

Examine the operationalization of the invoice

Mr. Nkrumah said that if the efforts to end the discussion on the adoption of the RTI bill were getting closer, it was urgent to critically review the implementation of the bill.

"You can pbad a bill, and we have had many bills that, in themselves, are deficient in some operationalization headings, so you have difficulty implementing them.

"We have tried to improve the current project so that it is easier to implement," he said, adding that "as a Ministry of Information, we have had some opportunities to make changes to the current project. "

According to the previous RTI bill, an information officer was supposed to receive all requests on his own and find all the information to make them available.

To alleviate this burdensome burden and tedious process, he said, an amendment was made to the draft bill to replace the information officer with an information unit to improve the delivery of information. implementation of the bill.