Ministry of Information and Media (MIM) Permanent Secretary, Thabo Kawana, says the Access to Information (ATI) law will go into effect in June 2024.
Zambia passed the ATI law last year after President Hakainde Hichilema signed it on December 22, 2023, during his end-of-year national address.
Thabo, who spoke on Diamond TV on Monday night [7 May 2024], disclosed that a technical working group comprised of members from the Ministry of Justice, Human Rights Commission, Judiciary, and Ministry of Information and Media is now completing the mechanisms for implementing the ATI law.
Right now there is a technical working group that is sitting and putting everything together and once that is done, a Statutory Instrument will be signed by the Minister of Information and Media and it will be put to operation.
MIM Permanent Secretary, Thabo Kawana
The new law, when operationalized, will allow any individual to request unclassified information from the government on any matter of public concern.
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