Probe Yar’Adua’s death with FoI Act, Says Nobel Laurate

Prof. Wole Soyinka, NOBEL Laureate, who recently clock 77, has challenged President Goodluck Jonathan, to use the Freedom of Information, FoI Act to unravel the intrigues surrounding the 

hospitalisation of late President Umoru Musa Yar ‘Adua in Saudi Arabia and how he was brought back to the country under mysterious circumstances.

Prof. Soyinka said that such information, if made available to the public, would be the first true test of the FoI Act pointing out that, this was the way to start its implementation because the information was in the public interest.

However, Niger State governor, Babangida Aliyu, disagreed saying that using the Act to unearth an event that took place before the FoI law came into being would amount to making it a retroactive legislation.

But in a swift reaction, Mr. Tayo Oyetibo, SAN, countered   insisting  that the FoI Act could be used to make the information public as long as it was available.

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