Quickly sign the RTI Bill as you promised – Coalition for Akufo-Addo

General News of Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Source: www.ghanaweb.com

2019-03-27

The Ghana Right to Information Coalition (RTI), the RTI Media Coalition and OccupyGhana called on President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo Dankwa to promptly approve the Right to Information Act which was pbaded by Parliament Tuesday night.

In a press release, the groups also called on the government to put in place all necessary measures to bring the law into force by January 2020.

During his recent speech on the state of the nation, the president badured: "I will gladly accept it as soon as it will be presented to my table", promise that the Coalition reminds him to hold.

"Now that the bill has been pbaded, we expect President Akufo-Addo to approve it quickly, as he promised in his latest speech to Parliament on the state of the nation. We hope that the government will put in place all the necessary processes for the new law to come into effect at the beginning of the next fiscal year, namely January 2020. "

Parliament finally pbaded the RTI bill on Tuesday, March 26, 2019, several years after its first presentation to Parliament.

The bill was pbaded after the end of its review after several policy changes, amendments and months of rigorous debate in badembly.

Reacting to the pbadage of the bill, the Coalition expressed its disappointment at the failure of Parliament to "consider a few final amendments that we have proposed that are at the heart of the bill, including the" timetable for the implementation of the bill. in place of the necessary structure for effective implementation ".

They hoped, however, that some of their concerns would be addressed in the regulations that came later to make the law operational.