With Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) violating the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act brazenly, there is a compelling need for defaulting public institutions to be heavily sanctioned for sanity to reign and for an open society to be guaranteed. Withholding budgetary allocations or other benefits from those institutions or their officials, stakeholders say, could be the magic wand needed, SUNDAY AIKULOLA reports.
The Freedom of Information (FoI) Act was enacted to make public records and information more freely available and to protect, and provide access to public records, all in a bid to ensure records are consistent with the public interest.
Additionally, it was to protect serving public officers from adverse consequences of disclosing certain official information without authorisation. It also established procedures for the achievement of afore stated aims and objectives.
Enacted…
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