Aaron theGreat

I’d really really hate to second this. I am still hopeful that hon. will come through for us 🙏🏽

The USA does not require software developers to hold a government licence to build and ship products. The UK has no mandatory developer registration. Singapore, the most digitally advanced nation in Asia, charges S$315 (roughly GH¢2,800) to register an entire company.

After hearing of one silicone valley success story, Ignorance makes most people assume “There is money in tech” in an attempt to justify the outrageous fees and regulations. Mmm. If e be easy…. Do am!

@Jebjosh iPhones, Alexa, smart watches, they are always listening. What they do with the information is what matters but no doubt they are always listening 😂🤧

I just watched the Michael Jackson biopic, and now almost every post I see is about the movie. Mind you, I didn’t even see as many posts about it before I watched it. Someone’s watching us. I’d tell u 😮‍💨

@thebutrous @kwesi_zitojnr I agree with you paa. But bro share the link wai 😂. This whole bunch no dey cost up to one boutique jeans. Smh

The shop owners in Ghana pick up this bunch bale of Foose from China for just $30 (GHC 300). Yet they sell it to us for more than GHC 1,000 per cloth. Yet everyone complains about things being expensive. We are our own enemies 🤦🏾‍♂️

Wordpress plugins paaaa. You couldn’t even use ai to generate something. Na’yine 😄

Less than 24 hours ago, we started a petition against the NITA Bill 2025. We just crossed 2,000 signatures. That shows how serious we are. But we’re still far from our goal of 10,000. Make your voice heard. Sign and share 👇 nitastopthebill.vercel.app @koboateng @kwekutech

Here is what would make me pay that levy with a smile. Pass a bill mandating that 95% of all state funded technology contracts go to or through Ghanaian companies on merit. Open tender. Published online. No back room deals. No friends and family. That is the bill we need.

@samgeorgegh boss we beg. The eco system is already weak. I suggest we actually encourage more people to get into the industry before we start implementing these Regulations in these magnitudes. Solid national servers, payment systems, support systems are far more crucial atm

@davibaah @NITAGhana Wordpress Pluggins? We are cooked!

A basic Web scan on @NITAGhana reveals their server type, country, IP range, email, and CMS stack publicly. This is information that should be protected. Sharing this in good faith. SECURE NITA WEBSITE 🔐 @NITAGhana, Charles, be serious. Your server stack, IP, and admin path are all exposed. Did someone's nephew build this website? Because this is not it 😂 @samgeorgegh #ResponsibleDisclosure #Ghana

At the very least I believe you can redefine some of these regulations. Over regulation will certainly do more harm than good for a developing nation.

You are using Lorem Ipsum on your website, and you're trying to charge me 20k for "license"? A whole government website. Supposed ICT Authority. Scrap the whole organisation. What a flipping joke.

@samgeorgegh You are correct - you have a country to build, not destroy The agency under your purview has "Lorem Ipsum" on its website 😂 and your people couldn't even define "coding" when pressed Perhaps you should listen to those who actually know what these things are

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

three questions for @NITAGhana before section 46 becomes law: 1. what specific market failure does mandatory certification fix, and where is the evidence? 2. what will certification cost, and who decides who passes? 3. how does this apply to the 14,000+ professionals already working in tech?

tech is the only professional field where a 19-year-old in kumasi can teach herself to code, build a product, find a client in berlin, and earn in dollars. no certificate from anyone. that self-determination is not a gap in the system. it is the system. it is why ghana has a tech ecosystem at all. when government certification becomes a prerequisite to work, two things happen: brain drain accelerates. meta just cut 8,000 jobs globally and moved 7,000 more into AI workflows. african developers are being positioned to absorb global opportunity right now. a licensing barrier at home does not raise standards. it raises the cost of staying. self-employment dies at the root. the freelancer, the solo founder, the developer building on weekends are not collateral damage. they are the pipeline. requiring certification before anyone can hire them attacks the entry point of the entire ecosystem. @NITAGhana what problem is this actually solving?

@tech_twi @kiddiebeatz Ai is a stretch for Ghana. We have a huge technology gap that has not been covered. There noor straight to Ai. Just finding loopholes to chop money

Just last year, Sam George signed a 12,100,000,000 GHC deal with the UAE for AI. A few days ago, Ghana approved another 3,075,000,000 GHC for AI. Today, Sam George is presenting to the country why we need to invest in AI. After a minor delay from the AI, he said, “This is why I prefer my deputy.” Imagine, after all this money, he himself doesn’t prefer AI and has no idea.

@MantseBi_Ago @meek_milli1 SA Dont deserve Malema

I will always love this guy