The public have the right to know

The challenge of some of the issues that the Access to Information Act, now still in its draft form, came to light this week. This newspaper published a ‘secret’ list of civil servants who had been suspended for failing to declare their assets as the law requires. What was most alarming, if not amazing, was that several employees of the Ministry of Public Service (MIFOTRA) were quizzed on how the supposedly classified document landed at The New Times’ desk.