OccupyGhana (OG) has been recounting the tale of how the Lands Commission is fizzling, disregarding or declining to carry on like a public service provider with experts, notwithstanding being fined GHS100,000 by the RTI Commission for such conduct.
In one of its decisions last week, the RTI Commission requested the Lands Commission to release information requested by OG in 14 days or less. In its trademark style, OG quickly wrote to carry their thoughtfulness regarding the decision, and requested to know the expense and what structure the revelation will take - copy, pdf, email or that it will be followed through on a pen drive.
Once more on Thursday, OG was constrained to write to remind them on the grounds that, similarly as in the prior cycle where it needed to expound on twelve letters to certainly stand out, the Lands Commission has chosen to disregard its letters.
Yet, as it did in sending a letter consistently on different requests, OG has promised to send an update consistently until the 14 days cutoff time terminates one week from now. You can trust OG to sue in the event that it becomes fundamental.
Yet, all OG has requested is information on State lands presently possessed by confidential people and how they came to claim what had a place with the State.
At the point when former NPP General Secretariat and later Forestry Commission boss Sir John's will uncovered the unimaginable and close to inconceivable, everyone cried unfairness and debasement, and which is all well and good. However, exceptionally ordinary of residents and our media, we fell asleep. OG is seeking after the peculiar and outrageous Achimota Timberland land deals adventure to its obvious end result.
Public lands are for the citizens. The Constitution is evident that these lands are vested in the President just as a legal administrator with guardian commitments to record to us how he deals with these properties for our benefit.
However, the Lands Commission after at first express status to give the information, changed its stance, compelling OG to speak to the RTI Commission.
Pro Ankomah and his group have done significantly more on different serious public-premium matters including seeking after the Workplace of Extraordinary Investigator to explore the anonymous well off money manager who paid off certain MPs over the Ofori-Atta statement of general disapproval movement.
The folks at OG have utilized their cash to finance costly claims that present to them no confidential addition. They have additionally gotten regulations passed to further develop responsibility and straightforwardness to residents.
Those of you, particularly NDC society, who obliviously or purposely malevolently yell that OG has nodded off in the NPP system nu, assuming you did a fourth of the truly difficult work legitimate mind work that OG has been doing, Ghana would be significantly better. It should not generally be tied in with yelling "steal" and showings.
FixTheCountry's Oliver Baker-Vormawor pursued data the Public safety service was constrained by open clamor to guarantee over the unlawful and illegal attack of CitiFM's Caleb Kudah in May 2021.
They didn't actually intend what they guaranteed in the intensity of advancement. They realized Ghanaians will fail to remember in half a month.
That should make sense of why when Oliver sought after them, they overlooked him totally prompting the RTI Commission's decision requesting them to uncover non-absolved segments of the data mentioned in 14 days or less.
The News media, the Media Starting point for West Africa's public premium and responsibility analytical reporting project additionally got orders convincing the GES to deliver data on Coronavirus showering works out.
Researchers and different specialists highlighted on Manasseh Purplish blue Awuni's analytical piece regarding the matter burn through no time in articulating the activities as inefficient and infective in battling Coronavirus. Manasseh tracked down the activities to have been a course for fantastic debasement.
The Media has been recognized as the greatest client of the RTI regulation. This is the gathering you have, for whatever reasons, clearly not in the public premium, made it your responsibility to assault and mishandle just on the grounds that they produce well-informed and analytical stories that save Ghana millions and uncover decay in our general public, even in the congregation?
The RTI Commission's intercession was looked for by Kofi Asare of Africa Instruction Watch for the arrival of data on SHS positions - data the service used to distribute without anyone inquiring.
In the vast majority of these cases, as I noted last week, the applications were not even recognized. Indeed, not in any event, when the RTI Commission mentioned reactions from these organizations.
You believe that we should give you a task, pay you, however for you to treat data produced with our cash like it were your confidential property? You obviously don't figure out open help and should be considered ill suited to serve in a position of authority set up and subsidized by people in general for administration to people in general.
Dear Head legal officer, Data Clergyman, Mr President, it is your obligation to show you are not complicit. Openly reprove the shameful direct. Excuse heads of foundations humiliating the Public authority and giving the country such a terrible name.
You should demand they pay the fines from their pockets. Mr President, when you marked this regulation in 2019, you said it was the mother of all enemy of defilement regulations. You were correct. In any case, that is assuming the law works.
We really want a distribution of the roll of disgrace for deviant and resistant establishments. The media or significant media houses can meet up to routinely distribute the roll of disgrace, and even boycott rebellious foundations while applauding others to empower better consistence. Indeed, we can!
Furthermore, that is to say, My Take.