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Freedom of Information Law and Good Governance - The Curse of Corruption in Sierra Leone (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Freedom of Information Law and Good Governance - The Curse of Corruption in Sierra Leone (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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This book argues that Sierra Leone's ten-year civil conflict
demonstrates the criticality of freedom of information (FOI) as a
facet of good governance where corruption thrives, spanning both
public and private sectors, if Sierra Leone's continued security
and stability are to be ensured. It argues that it was the absence
of an anti-corruption tool like FOI and its attendants,
transparency, and accountability, in governance generally, and in
the area of the extractive industry in particular, that lead to
other social phenomena which directly sparked the war. It proffers
that for the continued consolidation of peace, security, stability
and development in Sierra Leone, transparency and accountability
must be ensured by protecting and implementing the demand driven
anti-graft FOI. Straddling the disciplines of law, political
science, public policy, and history, the book's major premise is
that it was the absence of FOI in the area of governance and the
extractive industry, which enabled politicians, civil servants and
the politically connected to ransom and exploit Sierra Leone's
mineral resources for their own profit with impunity, a state of
affairs which led to underdevelopment, state collapse and an
embittered civil populace especially the youth. The book postulates
that as such any attempt to ensure long-term peace in Sierra Leone,
should seek to avoid replicating the conditions that gave rise to
that gruesome conflict- elites expropriation of national resources
through endemic graft. The book proposes the comprehensive and
effective implementation of the Right to Information Act 2013.
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