The FOI: Our right to know

Frankly Speaking, it is no longer surprising to me that certain issues of national significance keep repeating themselves as the years roll by.

A sensitive issue affecting citizens’ well-being is not resolved, or takes years to be attended to.  Hence repetition, frustration, contention or national chaos attend. Whatever one’s political preference.

Such an issue has now been intensified in this society.  And it is a consequence of the now-consistent scrutiny, investigation and exposure by the Parliamentary Opposition, well complemented by the Private Print Media.  If just one half of the reports in the private media, about executive lawlessness, governmental squandermania and outright corruption, is