The Attorney General\u2019s Department has asked Parliament to expeditiously work on the Right to Information Bill currently before the house.<\/p>\n
According to the Deputy Attorney General, Dr. Dominic Ayine, the Bill has been reworked, leaving it with only thirty two amendments that makes for easy perusal and passing by Parliament.<\/p>\n
There has been pressure on Parliament to pass the Bill which is expected to grant citizens greater access to public information.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”gs0xqGxZSZg7erZrNzlsimTnFh7B8Zrq”]Dr. Dominic Ayine in an interview with Citi News<\/strong> said, Members of Parliament can still propose amendments to the Bill in parliament.<\/p>\n \u201cBecause of the urgency with which parliament and of course the executive wants to pass the Bill, the strategy that we adopted was to withdraw the Bill and incorporate the numerous amendments that had been discussed and agreed upon by consensus in the house,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Dr. Ayine, who is also the Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga, said \u201cMembers are still at liberty to exercise their right and propose amendments on the floor, but we are hoping that the 32 amendments will be the ones that will be considered by the house in an expeditious manner so that the Right to Information Bill can be passed into law.\u201d<\/p>\n He added that, although the AG has not called for the Bill to be debated under a certificate of urgency, it is impressing upon the house to do so due to the high public interest.<\/p>\n \u201cWe haven\u2019t proposed that it should come under a certificate of urgency, but the Attorney General has impressed upon parliament that it is urgent that we pass the Bill,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n