{"id":410501,"date":"2018-03-17T11:52:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T11:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=410501"},"modified":"2018-03-18T08:52:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T08:52:59","slug":"kyei-mensah-bonsu-blocked-passage-of-rti-bill-george-loh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/03\/kyei-mensah-bonsu-blocked-passage-of-rti-bill-george-loh\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyei Mensah-Bonsu blocked passage of RTI bill \u2013 George Loh"},"content":{"rendered":"
Former Vice Chairperson on Parliament\u2019s Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, George Loh, has accused the Majority Leader of Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, of obstructing the passage of the Right to Information Bill<\/strong><\/a><\/span> (RTI) when the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was in power.<\/p>\n According to him, the bill was far advanced and needed only three readings in Parliament to become law, but Mensah-Bonsu, who was then the Minority Leader, said his team members were not interested.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”ZpmQZTOCIlBaocBCObI0DUrFC5iGB6xb”]\u201cWe had shepherded the bill and we were left with just few clauses. But you know when it got to the crunch and we were supposed to do it\u2026it was the opposition leader then, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, who said there were better things they [Minority] are thinking about, [Mensah-Bonsu said] our people are not willing to do it, we would not want to do it. We [NPP Minority members] have had a meeting and we think that this is not the right time so when we [NPP] come [to power] we will pass it,\u201d George Loh said on Citi FM<\/strong>\u2019s current affairs and news analysis programme, The Big Issue<\/strong> on Saturday.<\/p>\n George Loh explained that his committee had done all the necessary amendments to the bill saying \u201cwe were at the tail end of it, few more amendments and we would have been done\u201d but lamented that the minority members were adamant.<\/p>\n Mr. Loh, who is also a former Member of Parliament for North Dayi Constituency, said the NDC did all within its power push for the passage of the bill including getting the Attorney General’s Department to incorporate all the amendments needed into one document for easier scrutiny and approval.<\/p>\n