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    The Freedom of Information Act and Accountability in Public Sector Output in Nigeria
    (2021-04-24) Bot, M.D.; Olorunsuwa, E.O.; Tanko, S.P.; Nwaenyi, S.O.
    The most talked about Freedom of Information Act was passed a few years earlier, to encourage, improve and advance our perilous democracy. The Act (which is an addition of Section 39 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria), was engaged into law on 28th May, 2011 by the former President Goodluck Jonathan government. The drive of the Act is to create public proceedings and materials more freely accessible, afford for public access to public records and material, guard public records and information to the scope reliable with the public concern and the defense of delicate privacy, protect serving public officers from hostile penalties for revealing certain types of authorized information devoid of endorsement and institute procedures for the attainment of those goals. The Act advanced means of receiving access to registers by Court, resources and documents underneath the security cataloging. The basis of a rigorous democracy comprises accountability of the Government and its organizations. Accountability is a vital factor for the running of our political structure, as accountability means that those who are accused with conscripting and or carrying out strategy should be indulged to give clarification of their activities to their people. It is hope that with the enactment of the Freedom of Information Act, this would be assured.