Opinion | Government information officers should serve the public
Albert Cheng says the Information Services Department ought to be facilitating journalists' work, not denying access as it seems to be doing
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying told a forum this month that we shouldn't allow the Independent Commission Against Corruption to be used as a political tool. His comments were greeted by some with shock and dismay.
Leung demanded that those who had filed complaints with the ICAC against beleaguered executive councillors Franklin Lam Fan-keung and Barry Cheung Chun-yuen should apologise to the pair.
The two, embroiled in separate scandals, have since resigned from their posts.
In both cases, an ICAC investigation determined there was no case to pursue.
That being the case, we should be asking whether Leung is guilty of something similar: all signs point to the fact that the Information Services Department has become his political tool.
Michael Wong Wai-lun, the current director, took up the post in 2009. Four years on, he remains in the same job. Administrative officers customarily get transferred to a different department every three years.
