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EVERYONE PLEASE, THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO FORCE PROGRAMMERS TO PAY FOR A LICENSE JUST TO BUILD WEBSITES!!!!!! We are facing a critical moment for Ghana's tech future. The NITA Bill 2025 is currently in Parliament, and if passed in its current form, it could require every ICT professionals including freelancers and self-taught developers to obtain a government-issued license just to work. Let’s be clear, the tech community has already proven its worth. When we faced the dumsor crisis a few weeks back, it was developers on this very app who stepped up to build tracking tools to help citizens, all without needing a government permit to use their skills. We have invested years of hard work and thousands of cedis in tuition to master our craft. Being told we must now pay for a government license to practice those same skills is not just an unnecessary barrier, it’s an attempt to gatekeep the industry and stifle the very innovation that keeps this country moving forward. I need everyone to take a moment and sign this petition: nitastopthebill.vercel.app #nitastopthebill

@jsenadl Honestlyyy!!!

@Efiaa_b Our leaders are trying so hard to derail the already broken system🤦‍♂️

How is a broke fresh graduate with no source of income or support supposed to raise 5,000 cedis for a certificate just to use the IT degree they have already paid a fortune for at the university?

I barely do this but I beg any Ghanaian to read the following write up by Chris-Vincent Agyapong. Bookmark, share etc cos wtf 😳 1/4 “Ghana's NITA Bill 2025: How a Government That Cannot Fix Potholes Wants to Certify Your Keyboard Strokes There is a particular brand of Ghanaian governance that operates on a simple, well-rehearsed logic: identify the one sector in which ordinary young people, without connections, without family money, without a politician uncle are actually building something for themselves, and then erect a magnificent bureaucratic tollbooth right in the middle of it. The National Information Technology Authority Bill, 2025 currently making its way through Ghana's legislative machinery with the quiet confidence of a document probably written by a majority of people who have never debugged a line of code in their lives is precisely that tollbooth. It is, in its 105 sections and accompanying Schedule, one of the most breathtaking exercises in regulatory overreach this country has produced in recent memory. And given our regulatory track record, that is genuinely saying something. The ICT sector is the one industry where a boy from Ashaiman, or, like my friend from Pulima, Aliu Wahab, with a second-hand laptop and a YouTube tutorial, can compete with someone whose father went to Achimota. It is the one space where talent, not tribe; skill, not surname; output, not old-boy network, still carries meaningful weight. It is, bluntly, the only functioning meritocracy left in Ghana's economic life. And our government, with the NITA Bill 2025 has decided that this is precisely the sector that requires the most elaborate regulatory architecture since the tale of Moses coming down from Sinai with the Ten Commandments. The Absurdity of Section 46: Certifying Everyone, Everywhere, Always Let us begin with what is, without competition, the most extraordinary provision in this bill. Section 46(1) states, in plain and unambiguous terms: "A person shall not be appointed as an ICT professional in a public or private institution unless that person is certified by the Authority." Read that again. Public or private. This is not a provision that limits itself to government systems handling national security data. This is not a narrow carve-out for critical infrastructure. This is a provision that means the software developer at a startup in Osu, the data analyst at a logistics firm in Tema, the web designer freelancing from her bedroom in Kumasi, all of them, every single one must first obtain certification from a government authority before they can lawfully be employed. Who dreamed this up? Under what theory of governance does it make sense for the government of Ghana which cannot consistently process a DVLA licence within six months, which spent years and hundreds of millions on a national identification system that still cannot talk to the health insurance database to position itself as the certifying gatekeeper for an entire profession across the entire economy? And here is the delicious irony that the framers of this bill seem constitutionally incapable of perceiving: the government's own ICT record is the single most compelling argument against giving it certification authority over anyone. You do not hand the keys of the wine cellar to the person who has been drinking the wine. Politicians: The One Profession That Needs Certification Most, and Gets It Least Since we are on the subject of certification, let us pause to consider who in this country is not required to demonstrate any competence whatsoever before being handed consequential power over millions of lives. Continued below

@FemalePainter I’m glad. I hope you get a lot more recognition than you currently have❤️

@Efiaa_b This means a lot to me ❤️

No AI. I made these with my ancestors and too much tea 🧑🏿‍🎨

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i’m so genuine man, it’s so sad... i go above and beyond for everybody, but when it’s ME i get the bare minimum. i’m picking me every time from now on. i’m letting go of anybody that think they can do that to me