Delta govt committed to compliance with FOI Act —Ukah

 DELTA State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Patrick Ukah, has reiterated the commitment of the state government to comply with the Freedom of Information, FOI, Act. Ukah, who stated this in Asaba during a workshop organized by the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Federal Information chapel, on the popularization of the FOI Act, said the state government would continue to ensure that journalists and other stakeholders have unhindered access to information on its policies and programmes. Represented by the Chief Information Officer and Editor of the Ministry’s Bulletin, Mr. Churchill Oyowe, Ukah said the state government had opened its activities and encouraged journalists to access information on the state’s website on the SMART agenda of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa. Chairman of the state council of NUJ, Mr. Michael Ikeogwu, while presenting a paper, said the FOI Act would “remain a beautiful work of art and good for the shelves like every other government unimplemented policies if no deliberate effort is made to domicile the Act in the minds of Nigerians.”