Sherif

Volunteer // web dev // GIS // Agripreneur

[Sherif @AngbanyeF]

Who actually thought up that whole idea? Its evident the people involved have never been in the digital tech space.
#NITAmustnotpass
#NITA

[Tyson.nie 📸 @tysonphotoo]

go to university

read IT related courses

pay school fees for 4yrs

get a certificate from the university

do your national service

after national service look for jobs

jobs say they need 4 years experience

start something for yourself using your IT skills

NITA says it’s illegal so come and pay them so the evaluate you and give you certificate to certify that you are an iT specialist.

think of doing remote IT jobs.

NITA says that’s illegal too because they haven’t certified you.

you start to wonder why you went to the university in the first place.

[Sherif @AngbanyeF]

@2Gs1K @davibaah @NITAGhana Are you licensed? 😂. people that can't keep a good enough site wants to license raw unbridled talents

[Sherif @AngbanyeF]

The NITA bill poses a threat to the dreams of young people and it will cripple the startup ecosystem in Ghana

[Hubert Tieku Esq @KwesiHubert]

I barely do this but I beg any Ghanaian to read the following write up by Chris-Vincent Agyapong. Bookmark, share etc cos wtf 😳

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“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

[Sherif @AngbanyeF]

For the sake of Ghana’s digital future, this Bill must not pass.

Read This
The NITA Bill 2025 is a Digital Straitjacket – Why Ghana Must Reject This Assault on InnovationS
https://t.co/PGblur2TUC
#NITA

[NITA Ghana @NITAGhana]

RESPONSE TO CONCERNS REGARDING NITA, THE PROPOSED BILL, AND FEES & CHARGES

[Sherif @AngbanyeF]

The impact is massive at Junior camp WaSEC. Students, Teachers and Mentors are pushing for another Junior camp event in the school and other schools to provide career guidance to students.
#jcWaSEC #JuniorCampGhana

[Sherif @AngbanyeF]

@C_u_s_p_i_d @unclefiifii 😂😂, copyright infringement

[Sherif @AngbanyeF]

@PineaquaFarms Can you send me a photo of the aerator? And when you say 3 months worth of feed, what quantities are you referring to exactly.

Have you delivered a package to Wa before?

[Sherif @AngbanyeF]

It's 233 minutes past 2:33pm

My "Daga kparoo" ie fugu in Dagaare

It's fugu Wednesday, did you rep your fugu?

Oh and it's a fugu bag 😂

#fuguWednesday

[Sherif @AngbanyeF]

From your experience, @elonmusk, what does? What gives you happiness?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Whoever said “money can’t buy happiness” really knew what they were talking about 😔

[🧘🏾‍♂️🧘🏾 @gtagmemes]

We go again!

[Sherif @AngbanyeF]

@_nsagh @iamedem That 50 cedis was collected nationwide and you are claiming it is not authorized? Eei, and the 41 cedis for the first registration hasn't been refunded yet oo,

We are hungry.

[Sherif @AngbanyeF]

We stretch our hands to touch the prize,
With hope and fire inside our eyes.
If only life were like this light we see
A Simple Reach to set us free.

Happy New Year friends

[Sherif @AngbanyeF]

@TelecelGhana I haven't been able to log in for months now, and your support team don't respond to my mail after they ask for the screenshots

[Sherif @AngbanyeF]

@_nsagh When will those who did the first registration get their reimbursement

[Sherif @AngbanyeF]

@_nsagh When will you reimburse those who registered earlier before the system was taken down.

[Sherif @AngbanyeF]

@xrebelgh @SIKAOFFICIAL1 Thanks for the info, never knew

[Sherif @AngbanyeF]

@Learn_wit_Clara @creepydotorg Thanks for the details

Beats the original post 😅

[Sherif @AngbanyeF]

👀

[Sherif @AngbanyeF]

Is it possible to live a life without lies?

[Sherif @AngbanyeF]

@PineaquaFarms What’s the optimum fish population for a tank of that size