General News of Wednesday, 17 April 2019Source: citinewsroom.comSpeed up work on RTI – Coalition to ParliamentAkoto Ampaw, member of the Coalition’s Steering Committee and a Private Legal practitionerThe Coalition on the Right to Information (RTI) Bill has asked Parliament to speed up the work on the Bill to enable the President assent to it as early as possible. If the President does not give his assent to the bill, all the work will come to nought. “By law and following the third reading of the passage of the bill in Parliament, a communication will have to be sent to Parliament for his assent. Former Attorney General, Deputy Dominic Ayine in 2015, moved the Bill for second reading in Parliament. Following the dissolution of the Sixth Parliament of the Fourth Republic and the swearing-in of new Parliament in January 2017, the Bill had to be re-laid by the new government before work commences on it.

Source: GhanaWeb April 17, 2019 11:37 UTC