Ƴancin Samun Bayanai

Ƴancin Samun Bayanai
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Bayanai
Ƙasa	Ghana

Majalisar dokokin Ghana ta zartar da dokar ‘ yancin samun bayanai (RTI) a ranar 26 ga watan Maris na shekara ta 2019. Ya samu amincewar shugaban kasa a ranar 21 ga Mayun, shekara ta 2019 kuma ya fara aiki a watan Janairun shekara ta, 2020. Kafin zartar da shi, masu ruwa da tsaki daban-daban sun yi imanin jinkirin da aka samu wajen zartar da kudurin dokar shine don ba da damar keɓance wasu muhimman bayanai da ke da alaƙa da manufofin gwamnati waɗanda suke da niyyar ɓoyewa ga jama'a (Akoto, 2012). Wannan kudiri dai shi ne baiwa ‘yan kasa damar rike gwamnati domin tabbatar da cewa an samu daidaito a harkokin tafiyar da kasar.

Haƙƙin lissafin bayanai a wasu ƙasashe

'Yancin samun bayanai ba wani sabon abu ba ne a nahiyar Afirka. Sweden ta fara karbe ta a 1766 da Finland a shekara ta 1951. A cikin shekaru 20 da suka gabata, kasashen Afirka da dama sun amince da wadannan dokokin, wanda ke nuni da amincewar cewa gaskiya wani muhimmin sharadi ne na demokradiyya. A halin yanzu kashi 24% na kasashen Afirka sun amince da dokar. Wadannan kasashe sun hada da: Afirka ta Kudu, Angola, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Najeriya, Habasha, Rwanda, Laberiya, Guinea da Ghana. An gwammace a yi amfani da damar samun bayanai da Dokar Keɓancewa a Zimbabwe don kare bayanai maimakon samar da su ga jama'a gabaɗaya da sunan sirri. Sakamakon haka, ba a haɗa shi cikin kirga dokokin RTI wani lokaci (Kyakkyawan doka da aiki, 2012). Gabas ta tsakiya tana da kasashe uku ne kawai ke bin dokar (Jordan, Yemen da Isra'ila) kuma ta fara a cikin Janairu 2013. A Asiya da Pasifik kasashe goma sha shida sun amince da damar yin amfani da dokokin bayanai. Sun hada da: Bangladesh, India, Australia, Tajikistan, Koriya ta Kudu, Thailand, Cook Islands, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Taiwan, Indonesia, Uzbekistan Japan, Nepal, New Zealand, da Pakistan. Kasashe goma sha biyar a Amurka da shida a cikin Caribbean sun sami damar yin amfani da dokokin bayanai tun daga Satumba 2013.

Tarihi

Haƙƙin ba da bayanai yana cikin ra'ayin cewa masu biyan haraji na Ghana suna buƙatar samun damar samun bayanai game da abin da gwamnati ke yi da kuɗinsu da kuma abin da gwamnati ke shirin yi a madadinsu (Daily Graphic, Yuli 21, 2017a). Kudirin yana nufin tabbatar da cewa 'yan Ghana sun sami damar samun damar gudanar da mulki ko bayanan hukuma daga ofisoshin gwamnati bisa buƙata kuma ba tare da buƙata ba (Boateng, 2018). Kudurin yana nufin ya fara aiki, sashe na 21 (1) (f) na kundin tsarin mulkin kasar Ghana na shekarar 1992 wanda ya bayyana cewa “Kowane mutum zai sami ‘yancin samun bayanai dangane da cancanta da dokokin da suka dace a tsarin dimokuradiyya. al'umma ." (Hoto na yau da kullun, Yuli 21, 2017b). Duk da haka, shekaru da yawa na gwagwarmaya a cikin muhawarar majalisa da sake dubawa sun ga kudirin bai zama doka ba tukuna duk da cewa an fara tsara shi a cikin 1999 kuma an sake duba shi a 2003 (Kyauta na yau da kullun, Yuli 21, 2017c).