{"id":16632,"date":"2015-06-25T14:03:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T18:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/?p=16632"},"modified":"2015-06-25T14:03:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T18:03:48","slug":"delayed-consideration-urged-for-tanzanian-foi-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/2015\/06\/delayed-consideration-urged-for-tanzanian-foi-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Delayed Consideration Urged for Tanzanian FOI Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media stakeholders and the ruling party have recommended that a parliamentary committee be given time to make changes to the government\u2019s proposed access to information bill and a media bill, according to a June 23 Guardian<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ippmedia.com\/frontend\/index.php?l=81535\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\"> article<\/a> by Felister Peter.<\/p>\n<p>The Assembly, however, while resolving not to debate the contentious bill Media Services Bill, had announced plans to debate the Access to Information Bill, possibly by June 27.<\/p>\n<p>Media leaders said June 22 after meeting with members of the Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Affairs that the committee should act before the National Assembly votes on the bill.<\/p>\n<p>The representative from the Tanzania Constitutional Forum, Deusi Kibamba, said almost all the sections in the Access to Information Bill have problems, and was quoted as saying, \u00a0\u201cThe bill should not be tabled \u2026 we want it improved and tabled in the National Assembly in coming parliamentary meeting in November,\u201d he urged.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), has urged for the withdrawal of the Access to Information and Media Services Bills in Parliament until all major stakeholders are involved, according to a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.co.tz\/index.php\/local-news\/46439-ccm-calls-for-withdrawal-of-draconian-media\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\"> story<\/a> in The Daily News. A statement issued by the party\u2019s Publicity and Ideology Secretary, Nape Nnauye, here on June 23 asked for the immediate withdrawal of the bills until all stakeholders reach a consensus to avoid unnecessary tensions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think it is high time the Bills were withdrawn until thorough deliberations and agreements with all stakeholders are reached. Failure to reach a consensus on the same might lead to difficulties in implementation of the laws,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media stakeholders and the ruling party have recommended that a parliamentary committee be given time to make changes to the government\u2019s proposed access to information bill and a media bill, according to a June 23 Guardian article by Felister Peter. The Assembly, however, while resolving not to debate the contentious bill Media Services Bill, had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[494],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4E8o3-4kg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16632"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16635,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16632\/revisions\/16635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedominfo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}