{"id":417184,"date":"2011-05-04T11:27:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T11:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/04\/group-alleges-mps-are-frustrating-passage-of-right-to-information-bill\/"},"modified":"2011-05-04T11:27:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T11:27:18","slug":"group-alleges-mps-are-frustrating-passage-of-right-to-information-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/04\/group-alleges-mps-are-frustrating-passage-of-right-to-information-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Group alleges MPs are frustrating passage of Right to Information Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/f48f2de4020x20276.jpg.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" \/>The Right to Information Coalition, Ghana, says it suspects members of Parliament are deliberately frustrating the passage of the right to Information bill.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition says it is saddened by the delay in passing the bill into law months after cabinet announced its commitment to ensuring that the bill becomes a law.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the coalition some months ago embarked on a march to Parliament house to demand early passage of the bill.<\/p>\n<p>A leading member of the Coalition, Vitus Azeem in an interview with Citi News said he is surprised that it is taking too long for such an essential bill to be passed into law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel very disappointed and the coalition feels let down and I think the whole country feels let down for the fact we spent time and resources since 2003 working on this bill and up till now nothing is happening so definitely we are disappointed and we expect our parliamentarians to do better than that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that they have some reasons why they don\u2019t want this bill passed and you can always recollect the reasons that they give, that Ghana is not ready yet, we don\u2019t have a good information system and all those things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were all witnesses to the passage of the ROPAL which was passed under a state of urgency and up till now we are not able to implement the ROPAL so there no convincing reasons why the Right Information Bill is not being passed\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: Citifmonline.com<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<hr \/>\n<p>Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>More: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Right to Information Coalition, Ghana, says it suspects members of Parliament are deliberately frustrating the passage of the right to Information bill. 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