It was organised by the RTI appointment of the Ayawaso Central Municipal Assembly and meant to brainwash the acceptance on their axiological freedoms to admission advice in Article 21 (1) of the 1992 Constitution and Right to Advice Act 2019, (Act 989)
Participants were taken through the RTI law, appliance process, and procedures to chase to admission information, requirements of the appellant and the attainable institution, amid others
In a acceptable address, Mr Terry Abray Abebrese, the Right to Advice (RTI) Officer, said the RTI law was a sunshine Legislation advised to advice citizens adore and assure their axiological freedoms, makes institutions added cellophane and answerable and animate attainable accord in affairs that affair them. According to him, "we charge be citizens and not spectators," abacus it was alone by so accomplishing that we can authority assignment bearers answerable to their balloter promises
Addressing the acceptance as a bedfellow speaker, a Deputy Chief Advice Officer of the Admission to Advice Division, Information Services Department beneath the Ministry of Information, Mr Sosthenes Senanu Nyadroh, commended the acceptance for their alacrity to arch their knowledge gap on the law
He said all bodies charge accomplish a acquainted accomplishment to comedy their allotment finer in the autonomous process, abacus that it was the base for the admission of the advice bill into law
Mr Nyardroh said no attainable academy was exempted from accouterment an appellant with admission to information, except that assertive classes of advice are exempted from absolution to the attainable which is especially declared by the law, affirmation that any attainable academy that refuses to admission an appellant admission to advice may be compelled by the RTI Commission to do so in accordance with the law
According to him, however, there are absolved accoutrement that the law provides, abacus that the law permits attainable institutions to do the allocation depending on the advice generated at the institution
Mr Nyadroh adumbrated that the advice generated by an academy charge be appear in the institution's chiral on a annual base and should be attainable to the public
Being an acclamation year, he said, the law would advice the electorate accomplish beside and accordant decisions, abacus that it would advice for fact-checking in the era of misinformation and disinformation
He apprenticed all citizens to be beside of the law and appropriately accomplish use of it to accomplish allusive contributions to the autonomous prices