By Phillip Pasula

MZUZU-(MaraviPost)-Journalists in the country have been urged to do more reporting on parliamentary issues such as management and utilisation of resources approved by parliament as well as loan authorisation bills.

The call was made on Saturday at Grand Palace Hotel in Mzuzu where Centre for Social, Accountability and Transparency (CSAT) under the Parliamentary Support Programme refreshed minds of journalists belonging to Nyika Media Club on the Access to Information (ATI) law.

Veteran journalist Suzgo Chitete of Nation Publications Limited (NPL) and Joseph Mwale shade more light on the law, barriers in accessing information and ways of overcoming such barriers.

CSAT Executive Director, Willy Kambwandira, said it was important for journalists to report what parliament is doing and keep on check the work that is happening at parliament.

Said Kambwandira:“We thought we needed to orient colleagues from the media on the Access to Information Law because we believe this is the tool that is being used to promote parliamentary accountability. Our expectation is that the media is going to utilise the Access to Information Law to demand accountability through different parliamentary committees.”

Vice Chairperson for Nyika Media Club, Feston Malekezo, told Maravi Post that ATI was a very crucial piece of law that every journalist had to be appraised with.

“This training came in handy to help us to be equipped in these issues of accountability and how well we can report on issues happening in parliament,” said Malekezo.