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The Majority Chief Whip, Hon. Kwasi Ameyaw-Kyeremeh says the passage of the Right to Information [RTI] will be ‘concrete’ if President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo finally signs the bill.

According to him, even though parliament has passed the bill, it cannot be operational “unless the President appends his signature to the bill.”

“We are yet to submit the bill to the President, but the President can call for change in the bill and send it back to parliament for review if he is unclear with certain aspects of the clauses in the bill,” he said in an interview with NEAT FM’s morning show ‘Ghana Montie’. 

Parliament finally passed the Right to Information (RTI) bill into law on Tuesday 26 March.

The bill was relayed before Parliament in March last year by the Deputy Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Joseph Kpemka Dindiok after the previous parliament, the sixth of the fourth republic failed to pass it into law.