Freedom of Information Counsel Nigeria
Legal Services - Benin City, Edo, Nigeria
Freedom of Information Counsel Nigeria Employees
Freedom of Information Counsel Nigeria Details
FOI Counsel are lawyers who are determined to foster the objectives of FOIA in Nigeria with commitment to promoting participatory governance and access to justice.Independent access to government held information is guaranteed primarily by the Constitution, Freedom of Information Act 2011 and other legislations in Nigeria. These laws allows citizens to become aware and if motivated, involved in the policy formulation process and debate. The only mechanism by which we can assure governmental integrity is to have a clear understanding of what government is doing. Getting documents and other valuable information from the government is usually a crucial component in the resolution of any problem involving the operations or activities of bureaucrats. The FOIA is the best manner of access to significant resources of information which would not otherwise be available to the public.FOI Counsel is interested in enforcing the right of citizen journalists to information available in any frontier or form. FOI Counsel delivers timely and professional review of non responsive requests or denial of information or record of government.FOI Counsel hopes to bring MDAs back to the traditional role of disclosure and by so doing energizing the objective of the law. FOI litigation remains a channel of confrontation attempt at participatory democracy without which FOI policy will be struggling on the starting block yet it does not intend to make litigation out of every requests believing that MDAs conscience will be pricked by litigation and they will return to their prime assignment of proactive disclosure under the law.
