General News of Friday, 5 October 2018Source: Starrfmonline.comNDC didn’t pass RTI Bill because NPP was uncomfortable – AblakwaSamuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, MP for North TonguThe Member of Parliament for North Tongu Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has blamed the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the Mahama administration’s inability to pass the Right to Information (RTI) bill into law. Speaking Friday on Good Morning Ghana on Metro TV, the former Deputy Education Minister disclosed that the NPP resisted the erstwhile administration’s resolve to pass the bill into law before it came into power. “We came very…very close when in the sixth parliament we [NDC] had worked on it, finished everything but then the NPP had won the election, they were not comfortable about Parliament passing that [RTI bill] and they coming to power,” said Ablakwa. “…If there’s one, or two or three things that the two main political parties [NPP and NDC] align, agree to, then, it is this RTI that they don’t want. It has been 22 years since the first RTI bill was drafted under the auspices of the Institute of Economic Affairs, IEA and 16 years since the Executive arm of government in 2002 drafted the first RTI bill.

Source: GhanaWeb October 05, 2018 12:00 UTC