In Summary

• Whereas governments are entitled to secrets, most developing democracies abuse this privilege to declare anything and everything a ‘state secret’ in order to suppress, control or simply misinform the citizenry.
• But more importantly, rather than just releasing historical information, the Bill empowers any citizen to request any contemporary information held by state and private entities and expect a response within three weeks.

http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/walubengo/-/2274560/2969520/-/xlyx8tz/-/index.html

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