General News of Monday, 19 March 2018Source: www.ghanaweb.comRead RTI bill and stop saying it has a problem – Samson Lardy to Speaker, othersplay videoSamson Lardy Anyenini, host of Joy FM's Newsfile and a private legal practitionerLawyer Samson Lardy Anyenini host of Newsfile on JoyNews and member of the Right to Information (RTI) Action Campaign Group, is calling on the Speaker of Parliament Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye and members of Parliament to read the RTI bill and stop making excuse for the delay in the passing of the bill. The Speaker reportedly said making access to information from the public sector mandatory through the passage of the Bill without including private businesses was a road that would lead nowhere. He expressed great disappointment at the level of ‘ignorance’ exhibited by the Speaker of Parliament and advised the latter to read the Bill to inform himself of its contents. You can only get information from the public sector, Right Honorable Speaker with the greatest of respect to you, pick the bill in front of you and read it, read just the preamble not any section. “There is, however, one piece of the anti-corruption framework that is yet to be put in place- the Right to Information Bill.

Source: GhanaWeb March 19, 2018 21:22 UTC