PRESS STATEMENT: ACCOUNTING TO THE PEOPLE: A REAL COMMITMENT OR ANOTHER POLITICAL RHETORIC
PRESS STATEMENT: ACCOUNTING TO THE PEOPLE: A REAL COMMITMENT OR ANOTHER POLITICAL RHETORIC His Excellency, President John Dramani Mahama began a tour to the various regions to account to the people of Ghana on how his government has performed in terms of fulfilling previous campaign promises. The Right to Information (RTI) Coalition would like to know from His Excellency, whether the promise by his government to pass the Right to Information Bill this year formed part of the agenda in the just concluded accountability tour. Efforts by civil society organisations in Ghana to secure the passage of the Right to Information Bill have proved abortive for more than a decade. The RTI Bill is the only Bill in Parliament that has suffered from several failed promises by politicians from both sides of the political divide. Governments both past and present have made promises to put the legislation in place but have failed to do so despite their proclaimed commitment to the fight agains