ON Wednesday members of the “Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition” marched to Mendiola to protest the continued failure of Congress to pass the Freedom of Information bill. The marchers carried a coffin symbolizing the death of the FOI Bill.

The RKRN Coalition said no excuses can hide President Aquino’s and Speaker Feliciano Belmonte’s “failure of leadership” and being “the principal culprits” in frustrating the efforts of pro-people legislators and advocates who have championed the passage of the FOI bill which continues to collect dust in the House of Representatives. The Senate had much earlier passed the bill.