MRA faults FG’s threat to jail officials over information leakage

Media Rights Agenda , yesterday, expressed concern over government’s statement, through the Secretary to the Government of the Federation , George Akume, threatening to jail government officials who disclose information without authorisation.

MRA’s Deputy Executive Director, Ayode Longe, described as false and illogical the SGF’s accusation in the same speech that civil society organisations “use the FOI Act to harass, intimidate and siphon resources from public officers through the dissemination of fake and unfounded information.” Longe argued that unless the SGF was saying that when CSOs apply to public institutions for information using the FOI Act, they were served “fake and unfounded information”.

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