President ratifies Right to Information Act
12 Jan 2014, 5:05 PM
Zaheena Rasheed
President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom has ratified the landmark Right to Information (RTI) Act today.
Advocacy NGO Transparency Maldives has hailed the ratification of the act as “major step forward for good governance and transparency.”
The act (Dhivehi) aims to widen and improve the scope for the citizen’s rights to information in order to increase transparency and accountability.
Within six months of ratification, the president is mandated to appoint a Commissioner of Information to enforce the act, while the government is obliged to appoint an Information Officer at every government office to facilitate access to information.
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