February 9, 2021 Information Officer A team headed by the Chairman of the Right to Access Information Commission (RAIC) has today, Monday, 8th February, 2021, met with the minister of Labour and Social Security in its popularization drive of the Right to Access Information (RAI) Act 2013. The meeting, which was held at the minister’s office at New England Ville in Freetown, was well attended by various heads of departments and units of the ministry. The Commission’s Executive Secretary, Honorable Mustapha Braima, explained that the RAI was born out of the high amount of secrecy and confidentiality that has prevailed in the Sierra Leonean society where there was zero access to information. He added that because very little was known about access to information or what the RAIC is about, they have decided to embark on this sensitization drive, as even the “higher cadre of public officials have little or no interest in giving out information.” “This is why we have first decided to use the carrot approach for now”, he said.