[kictanet] FOIA: Petition to the National Assembly

[Alex Gakuru]

Walu,

I do not have a soft copy but I can tell you the Bill
is good.

If this Private Member Bill was passed, by Law all
future Bills would have to be available for download:
http://www.kenyalaw.org/Bills/ . Mid last month I
asked them to publish it but they appear unable this
far.

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On 8/16/07, <> wrote:
> Dear Alex,
> 
> Thanks for the kind notice.
> 
> We are currently preparing that bill among other
bills for upload.
> Please check again soon.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Kenyalaw.org
> 
Alex Gakuru wrote:
>
> The Freedonm of Information Bill has been missing
from your list of
> pending bills for quite some time. Possible you
upload it? Thanks.

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Right now we need people who want the Freedom of
Information passed to sign the petition. 

"Petitioners Asking the National Assembly to Pass The
Freedom of Information Bill, 2007"
 
Name       ID. No             Signature
 
The most important aspect is that those signing must
be citizens of Kenya thus the ID No. A formal petition
signing event will be announced by ICJ. 

Regards,


Alex

--- John Walubengo <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Alex,
> 
> I wonder what is the current content of the Freedom
> Of
> Informationi Act/Bill? 
> 
> ...last time i checked it had some issues - as per
> the
> stakeholders forum at KSMS  sometime in April this
> year.
> Unfortunately I cant recall most of them but i
> recall one
> particular comment. That the Bill was good but
> tended to
> focus too much on how to facilitate access to
> Goverment
> information at the expense of access to Private
> Sector
> Information.
> 
> Increasingly, critical national resources(& their
> Data) are
> being offered by the private sector and this trend
> is
> likely to grow in future (e.g. mobile & banking
> services,
> power and water utilites amongst others).  It would
> be a
> waste to miss the opportunity to define explicitly
> how
> these private enterprises would be accountable to
> the
> public in the same spirit as the Government is
> expected to
> be.
> 
> I wonder if the Bill is coming out strongly in this
> direction - while ofcourse being sensitive to
> existing
> business ACTs like the Companies Act, etc.
> 
> walu.
> --- Alex Gakuru <alex.gakuru at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > attached
> > 
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