General News of Saturday, 30 March 2019Source: 3news.comAkoto Ampaw challenges ‘scarecrow’ GhC750m for RTI implementationLawyer Akoto AmpawPrivate legal practitioner Lawyer Akoto Ampaw has described as merely a scarecrow an amount of ¢750 million being quoted by Parliament as the cost of implementation of the Right to Information Law, which was passed on Tuesday, March 26. A research conducted by Parliament found out that the Right to Information (RTI) Law will cost the government some ¢750 million over the next five years. But Mr. Ampaw, contributing to a discussion on the Saturday edition of TV3’s morning show, The Key Points, challenged the figured. “So I think that this is a red-herring, it’s a scarecrow that Parliament is throwing at the people of this country,” he added. Leader of the Media Coalition on the Right to Information Elvis Darko also shared the opinion of Mr. Ampaw, questioning the cost involved in implementing the law.

Source: GhanaWeb March 30, 2019 16:07 UTC