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“Delay in passing information bill
seeks to improve implementation first”- Asamoah Boateng
Koforidua, June 23, Ghanadot/GNA - Mr Stephen Asamoah
Boateng, Minister for Information and National Orientation,
said on Monday that the delay in the passing of the
Information bill was to enable government to strengthen the
base for its implementation.
He said the need for the civil and public service personnel
to be trained and other elements to be put right as to how
to give the information needed by the public was among other
factors that has compelled government to hold on with the
bill until those concerns had been addressed.
Mr Asamoah Boateng said this in response to a question when
he met Municipal and District Chief Executives, Information
officers and the media at a forum in Koforidua.
He said the civil service structure as it stands now could
not be efficient in the implementation of the bill “if we
don’t train them to appreciate the need to give information
freely.”
Mr Asamoah Boateng said even without that law the media had
access to information needed as far as the public was
concerned and that the government was interested in
information management and would therefore not deliberately
block that bill.
On governmental issues, the information Minister said the
government believed that it had to make known its good works
to the public to know that the mandate given them had been
utilized well.
He said since governance had become competitive it was not
out of place for them to compare with the state of affairs
when they took power.
The Regional Minister, Mr Kwadwo Afram-Asiedu, said
information management was a key component of government
activities that it could not afford to downplay.
GNA
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