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March 28, 2019
Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu has revealed that he does not have any problem, if the Nana Akufo-Addo led government want to take credit for the passage of the Right to Information Bill (RTI) into law.
He was however quick to point out that the current Majority side were the same people in Minority who obstructed its passage on the 4th of January 2017.
“Go back to the records, when the former Speaker Edward Doe Adjaho, re-introduce the RTI on the 4th of January 2017, then opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) obstructed it and they are back to take credit for it?”
Mr. Haruna Iddrisu noted that the current state of the Right to Information Bill passed for a start, “let us work with it”.
Again every law passed in Parliament in my view is a good law, “when we review the performance, that we are not happy with it, we can come for amendment”.
As to whether the current state of the RTI would help fight corruption, he noted that it was easier on Tuesday to strengthen the lose ends, we lost the opportunity in the name of technicality.
“When you saw the same rules being abuse, when we got to the third reading, let us give it a try as a country, whatever it does it would deepen our governance institutions, it would deepen transparency and accountability”.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com