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001442496 1001_ $$aAbdulai, Emmanuel Saffa,$$eauthor.
001442496 24510 $$aFreedom of information law and good governance :$$bthe curse of corruption in Sierra Leone /$$cEmmanuel Saffa Abdulai.
001442496 264_1 $$aCham, Switzerland :$$bPalgrave Macmillan,$$c[2022]
001442496 300__ $$a1 online resource (1 volume) :$$billustrations (black and white)
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001442496 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
001442496 5050_ $$aChapter 1: Introduction: A Brief Global History of the Emergence, Evolution, Development and Proliferation of Freedom of Information: Principles Definitive of Scope and Substance -- Chapter 2: Myths Surrounding Freedom of Information Laws -- Chapter 3: How FOI aids womens Empowerment and redcues Gender and Sexual Based Violence -- Chapter 4: Comparative Analysis of Freedom of Information Laws in Sierra Leone and Liberia -- Chapter 5: Sierra Leones Resource Curse: How the Abuse of Diamonds, Politics and Power Collapsed a Nation -- Chapter 6: War, Business as Usual: The Global Scramble for Sierra Leones Natural Resources -- Chapter 7: Diamonds, War, Poverty and Underdevelopment: A Multidimensional Perspective on the Global Diamond Industry and its Need for Reform -- Chapter 8: The Place of FOI in the Second Republic -- Chapter 9: Localising Transparency and Accountability: Access to Information and Citizen Engagement Under the Local Government Act 2004 -- Chapter 10: The Effect of The EITI Process on Transparency and Accountability in Sierra Leones Extractive Industry -- Chapter 11: Conclusion; Breaking Free of the Bog: The Need for a Novel Impetus in the Implementation of the RTAI Act 2013.
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001442496 520__ $$aThis book argues that Sierra Leones ten-year civil conflict demonstrates the criticality of freedom of information (FOI) as a facet of good governance where corruption thrives, spanning both public and private sectors, if Sierra Leones continued security and stability are to be ensured. It argues that it was the absence of an anti-corruption tool like FOI and its attendants, transparency, and accountability, in governance generally, and in the area of the extractive industry in particular, that lead to other social phenomena which directly sparked the war. It proffers that for the continued consolidation of peace, security, stability and development in Sierra Leone, transparency and accountability must be ensured by protecting and implementing the demand driven anti-graft FOI. Straddling the disciplines of law, political science, public policy, and history, the books major premise is that it was the absence of FOI in the area of governance and the extractive industry, which enabled politicians, civil servants and the politically connected to ransom and exploit Sierra Leones mineral resources for their own profit with impunity, a state of affairs which led to underdevelopment, state collapse and an embittered civil populace especially the youth. The book postulates that as such any attempt to ensure long-term peace in Sierra Leone, should seek to avoid replicating the conditions that gave rise to that gruesome conflict- elites expropriation of national resources through endemic graft. The book proposes the comprehensive and effective implementation of the Right to Information Act 2013.
001442496 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record.
001442496 61010 $$aSierra Leone.$$tRight to Information Act, 2013.
001442496 650_0 $$aTransparency in government$$zSierra Leone.
001442496 650_0 $$aFreedom of information$$zSierra Leone.
001442496 650_0 $$aPolitical corruption$$zSierra Leone.
001442496 650_6 $$aLiberté d'information$$zSierra Leone.
001442496 650_6 $$aCorruption (Politique)$$zSierra Leone.
001442496 651_0 $$aSierra Leone$$xPolitics and government$$y1961-
001442496 651_6 $$aSierra Leone$$xPolitique et gouvernement$$y1961-
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001442496 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aAbdulai, Emmanuel Saffa.$$tFreedom of information law and good governance.$$dBasingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021$$z9783030836573$$w(OCoLC)1264399337
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