Reps flay MDAs over non-compliance with FOI Act
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By Levinus Nwabughiogu, Abuja
Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on the Freedom of Information, Hon. Cornelius Nnaji has said that only 73 of the over 900 public institutions in the country complied with the provisions of the Freedom of Information, FOI Act on the disclosure of public information for 2020.
Nnaji who spoke at the 10th-anniversary celebration of the Freedom of Information Act in Abuja on Friday disclosed that the Official Secrets Act (OSA) of 1962 was acting against the implementation of the FOIA, saying it dominated the thinking and practice in the public service.