The Coalition for the Right to Information and the Ghana Journalists Association have announced plans for a “pass the bill now” campaign.

The groups hope to encourage the government to pass the long-stalled RTI bill into law.

“The implications for not passing a law for citizens’ right to information are a sign that the political parties are afraid of transparency and accountability in the affairs of Government,” said journalism professor Kwame Karikari, the convener of the Ghana Right to Information Coalition, at a World Press Freedom Day event. He recalled that work on the bill began 15 years ago.

Karikari commended the Parliamentary Committee on Legal And Constitional Affairs for updating the RTI bill to include recommendations made by the RTI Coalition. (See previous Freedominfo.org report.)

President John Dramani Mahama had promised on several occasions to pass it, Karikari said.

“President Mahama has only repeated his promise so far, but the delay continues, and so we are left with no other option but to interpret the state of affairs our own way,” he said.

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