Over 50 NGOs demand release of CEP report
Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Mohamed Hanipa Maidin told Parliament Thursday that the CEP report was classified as a state secret, but said that the PH government was not trying to conceal wrongdoing. — Picture by Ahmad Zamzahuri
The non-governmental organisations also wanted the Official Secrets Act 1972 to be reviewed and to have its purview limited to national security, defence, international relations, and “other narrowly defined criteria”. “While we acknowledge that every government needs to be able to keep certain documents confidential in the interest of the nation’s security and well-being, we state categorically that the current OSA cannot be the law that is used to do so.
The 54 NGOs also called for a Freedom of Information Act and urged the government to release a report by the Institutional Reforms Committee, which was prepared under the auspices of the CEP, that recommended to PH institutional reforms.
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