General News of Wednesday, 27 March 2019Source: Myjoyonline.comNo mood for celebration over 'almost criminal' delay in passing RTI lawplay videoLegal Practitioner, Samson Lardy AnyeniniAfter 19 years, Parliament has finally passed the Right to Information bill but a campaigner says there is no mood for celebration. “It has been very exhausting,” Samson Lardy Anyenini, who is a member of the RTI coalition, summed up in a concerted struggle to push Parliament to act. "This is a landmark achievement,” the Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin said after chairing the passage of the law in Parliament. Samson Lardy Anyenini said the people on whose behalf the government derives its power have expressed interest in knowing how decisions are taken on their behalf as the RTI law directs. “A lot of rubbish has been put on us all the time,” Samson Lardy Anyenini recounted the despair at the several excuses thrown at the bill.

Source: GhanaWeb March 27, 2019 11:15 UTC