The Ghana government has not yet made public the text of its promised freedom of information law, according to local activists.
The Cabinet approved a bill June 6. (See previous FreedomInfo.org report.)
The bill will be public once introduced in Parliament, which reconvened May 28.
Transparency supporters are eager to see the bill in part because the previous legislation, which died in Parliament last year, was considered weak. There is no information on whether improvements have been made.
Mina Mensah, Regional Coordinator of Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and member of the Coalition on the Right to Information, said in a television appearance, “The old bill has a lot of issues but we do not know whether it has been improved… and there is so much secrecy surrounding it.”
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