Malawi Government has confirmed that the much anticipated legislation 'Acess to Information Act' will be tabled during this sitting of National Assembly.
Minister of Justice and Constitution Affairs, Samuel Tembenu told members of the press and Civil Society Organisation at Bingu International Conference Centre on Tuesday that the legislation is now ready.
Tembenu made the disclosure as he was responding to recent CSO statement which is calling for President Peter Mutharika resignation over failure to address democratic and economic governance problems rocking the country.
"We have so far finished processing the Acess to Information Act, it should have been discussed yesterday (Monday) but for other things we haven't been able to do that. But within the course of the week and next week we should be able to complete the processing of this Act" said Tembenu with an indication that the Act will be ready for parliament this sitting.
"The beauty with that Act is that it is on the basis that every public official has an obligation to disclose public information." Said the Minister
"I am myself looking forward to that Act being passed one of these days" He added saying he hopes that when that is done there will be a lot of information given to the public and that will minimize incidences of misinformation to the public.
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