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RAIC Holds Round Table on FOI Law Written by Abdulai Braima
In its drive to popularize Right to Access Information Act of 2013 to ensure compliance, the Right to Access information Commission RAIC with support from the Open Society Initiative for West Africa OSIWA has on Thursday 25th February held a round table for professional interest groups at the Atlantic Lumley Hotel, Aberdeen in Freetown.
The session which targeted The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists SLAJ, The Sierra Leone Teachers Union, SLTU, The Sierra Leone Labour Congress and the Sierra Leone Association of Non-Governmental Organizations SLANGO, among others engaged them on their rights and obligation in the Freedom of Information Law.
February 9, 2021
Information Officer
A team headed by the Chairman of the Right to Access Information Commission (RAIC) has today, Monday, 8th February, 2021, met with the minister of Labour and Social Security in its popularization drive of the Right to Access Information (RAI) Act 2013.
The meeting, which was held at the minister’s office at New England Ville in Freetown, was well attended by various heads of departments and units of the ministry.
The Commission’s Executive Secretary, Honorable Mustapha Braima, explained that the RAI was born out of the high amount of secrecy and confidentiality that has prevailed in the Sierra Leonean society where there was zero access to information. He added that because very little was known about access to information or what the RAIC is about, they have decided to embark on this sensitization drive, as even the “higher cadre of public officials have little or no interest in giving out information.” “This is why we have fi