Press
Release
The
Right To Know (R2K) Nigeria, has scored yet another first in its advocacy for
access to information in Nigeria. It has released the first ever video on the
Freedom of Information in Nigeria. The video which was released few days after
the celebration of the Right To know Day, September 28, 2014, was produced as
part of R2K’s advocating strides and a renewed call for Nigerians to take full
advantage of the right to access information.
According
to the National Coordinator Ene Nwankpa, who stated that, ”Nigerians continually agitate for transformation in
governance, and now, for the past 3 years, since the signing into law of the
FOI Act, most successful initiatives for change using the law – such as the
removal of the illegal, and now defunct Abuja Park and Pay Scheme – have been
largely at the instance of civil society organizations”.
Ene Nwankpa called on
members of the public to move beyond the rhetoric, and to actively participate
in using the FOI Act to entrench accountable and transparent processes in the
business of governance in Nigeria.
The video is a series of eight episodes of carefully
selected sections of the FOI Act. It introduces the Act in the most engaging
and very educative style. The first episode in the series titled ‘Access to
information is a Right’ introduces the series with an approach of exterminating
the ignorance of the viewers of their fundamental human right to access
information. All other episodes such as, “What is a Public Institution?”, "The ways of accessing information”, "Who can apply for information?”, “How
to apply for information” and many more do not fall short of its educating
qualities.
Mfonabasi
Udoh of Isu Media Limited, the production partners for the video series has
described the video series as a novel that will revolutionize democracy and
open up more opportunities for the media and communications sector in the country.
The
videos can be found on R2K website at www.r2knigeria.org, or https://www.youtube.com
Signed
Odoh
Diego Okenyodo
Managing
Director
Isu
Media Limited
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