No more excuses, FOI right now – media group

There is no more reason for the committee on public information of the House of Representatives to continue delaying the progress of the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill and entertaining the addle-minded attempts of some lawmakers to force the inclusion of a right-of-reply (ROR) provision in the measure.

The dilly-dallying should stop, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) said on Wednesday in a statement, pointing to “the clear results of the online poll on whether an ROR provision should be inserted into the FOI bill that our ‘honorable’ representatives posted early this month on the House of Representatives’ website https://congress.gov.ph/.”