The constitution made a fundamental constitutional promise that citizens would no longer have to treat public information held by the state as privilege granted at the discretion of public officials
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The new constitution brought about access to information while providing new framework in which information is disseminated to the public and the limitation that is accompanied with it.
We reflect on the journey into the evolution of access to information under the new constitution the gains it has come up with and the misses that we are encountering as a nation.
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