BILLS IN GHANA

The Chairman of the Joint Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs and Communication of Parliament says they are still waiting for input from the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) before the Right to Information Bill is laid before parliament for consideration. , Emmanuel Kwasi Bandua was responding to some MP's on the floor of the house, who questioned the Majority Leader, Cletus Avoka and also the chairman of the joint committee working on the Right to Information Bill over the delay in the passage of the bill. The Speaker of Parliament Joyce Bamford-Addo impressed on the Chairman of the Joint Committee to go after CHRAJ so that the process in passage of the bill would not be further delayed. The Right to Information Bill, which was drafted 10 years ago seeks to give the Ghanaian public the right to access any official information being held by a government agency. The Bill which was proposed in 1998, has still not been passed for the past 14 years.