{"id":282305,"date":"2017-01-06T13:51:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T13:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=282305"},"modified":"2017-01-06T13:51:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T13:51:46","slug":"parliament-fails-to-pass-rti-bill-despite-mahamas-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/parliament-fails-to-pass-rti-bill-despite-mahamas-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament fails to pass RTI Bill despite Mahama’s appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"
The 6th<\/sup>\u00a0Parliament of the 4th<\/sup>\u00a0Republic has failed to pass some key bills including the Right to Information Bill, the Plant Breeders Bill and Intestate Succession Bill.<\/p>\n President John Dramani Mahama in his last state of the nation address, had appealed to the House to consider passing the Bill into law, while addressing the legislature on Thursday – a move the minority kicked against.<\/p>\n The Majority leader, Alban Bagbin, in his final address on the floor of the house before dissolution, described as \u201cunfortunate\u201d the house\u2019s inability to pass the bills which he says were important.<\/p>\n As the House prepares to be dissolved by midnight today [Friday], it will be unable to further work on the RTI Bill until it is brought back to the new Parliament by the incoming government.<\/p>\n