Rwanda lower house welcomes supplementary plan for wider, faster access to official acts
While dubbing it as "e-Publication", as well as long overdue, lawmakers in Rwanda's lower chamber of Parliament on Wednesday approved a proposal for a draft law that will see the government publicize – in digital format – official acts, including laws, presidential orders, Prime Minister's orders and ministerial orders.
The east African country already uses ICT to facilitate access to law and justice through websites that publish online official texts.
The new legislative proposal also hailed by Apollinaire Mupiganyi, Transparency Rwanda's Executive Secretary, as "a sign that Rwanda, day by day, is taking measures to enhance good governance, as well as curb corruption," is meant to ensure that official acts normally put in the Official Gazette publication are publicized even faster, and to more Rwandans.
While tabling the bill before Parliament, Tharcisse Karugarama, the Minister of Justice and Attorney General, noted that after more than 50 years, it is a matter of urgency' to adapt the previous legal framework to new realities.
Karugarama said this provides a great advantage for making legislative acts available and accessible immediately after their promulgation.
Karugarama said "It is a means of having multiplication such that many people have easy and fast access."
"This bill does not remove the current mechanisms but it is an arrangement for improved access to what is in place."
Editor: Xiong Tong
English.news.cn 2011-11-17 10:34:12 FeedbackPrintRSS
KIGALI, Nov. 16 (Xinhua)
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