Sri Lanka Guardian: Sri Lanka: Friday,
June 24, 2016.
Prime
Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said today that the it will take least one year
to fully implement the provisions of the Right to Information (RTI) act as
close to 12,000 persons would have to be recruited and trained in to
disseminate information.
“It is not an
easy task to recruit and train so many persons but we will take try to get at
least half of them recruited within six months,” the Prime Minister said at the
start of the debate on the RTI Bill.
He said that
the RTI law will consolidate democracy in the country and would hold the
government accountable to the public.
The Prime
Minister said that in 2003 the UNP first attempted to introduce a RTI Bill but
after it lost power in 2004, the Bill went into cold storage. The UNP Bill at
the time was titled the Freedom of Information Bill.”
“If the RTI law
had been in place, then some of the excesses of the previous government which
are only coming to light now would have been exposed,” he said.
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