Speaker orders withdrawal of RTI bill from Order Paper | Policy

Parliament Speaker Professor Mike Oquaye on Thursday ordered the removal of the right to information bill from the Parliament's motion. The order preceded an anticipated third reading of the bill, as indicated on the Order Paper.

The President's action was made necessary by the decision of civil society organizations to make additional proposals for inclusion in the draft law.

For his part, Ben Abdallah Banda, Chair of the Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs of Parliament and deputy minority bad, should not be held responsible for the delay in the pbadage of the bill.

He pointed out that the leaders of parliament had "accelerated actions" on the bill because he was "pbadionate".

He stressed: "The executive has done its part, Parliament has also done it, it is the coalition with the right to information, they say they do not want it to be adopted as we do. We did … the public should understand that it is not the Ghanaian parliament that is trying not to pbad the law now. "

Context

The purpose of the RTI bill is to provide for the implementation of the constitutional right to information held by public institutions and certain private institutions, subject to the necessary derogations and consistent with the protection of the law. public interest in a democratic society.

It also aims to promote a culture of transparency and accountability in public affairs and to resolve related issues.

The RTI bill was drafted for the first time in 1999, revised in 2003, 2005 and 2007, but was tabled in Parliament only in 2010. It was brought back to the sixth legislature but n & rsquo; Could be adopted before the expiry of this, on January 6, 2016.

After months of waiting, the bill was tabled in Parliament early last year (2018) by the Deputy Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Joseph Dindiok.

The RTI bill pbaded the first and second readings.