Bernard

Computer Engineer 👨🏿‍💻 | Roboticist 🤖

[Alfred @CallmeAlfredo]

Cities far larger than Accra don’t run national clean-up exercises to manage solid waste. You have to address the root cause. A two-day cleaning exercise does nothing about waste generation and collection. Who dumps trash in drains when they know it will be collected every week or every other week?

You have to invest in waste transfer stations. Collection trucks deposit waste there before it is hauled to the final disposal site. That cuts travel time and stops waste being dumped or burned in communities.

You also need to invest in additional final disposal capacity. The Kpone landfill has been nearly full since 2019. Current analysis says it could be shut down in six months.

I’m not coming up with any new ideas. I’m regurgitating the appraisal document for the $350m Greater Accra Resilient and Integrated Development Project (GARID) project, which allocated US$42.2 million to solid waste management: transfer stations, capping old dumpsites, and extending disposal capacity.

We have the ideas and the funding to attack Accra’s floods from different angles. Why are we still looking at communal labour and the associated clown show to deal with waste management?

[Alfred @CallmeAlfredo]

When we tragically lost eight Ghanaians in the helicopter crash, including two ministers, there were strong assurances that the fight against galamsey would be intensified. Yet beyond the initial statements, what has really changed?

If anything, the biggest change has been the decline in media coverage. When was the last time the government provided a comprehensive public update on the fight against illegal mining? One could easily assume the problem has disappeared, when in reality it has simply faded from the headlines. The next major environmental disaster will bring it back into public discussion.

The devastating floods in Accra will follow the same pattern. There will be public outrage, emergency meetings, directives, and promises of decisive action. Some short-term measures will be implemented. Then, as public attention shifts elsewhere, the urgency will fade until the next tragedy forces the issue back onto the national agenda.

This cycle of governing by crisis is one of our biggest governance challenges. We react to disasters instead of consistently managing the underlying risks. We announce interventions but rarely sustain the institutional focus, accountability, and follow-through needed to solve problems permanently.

Whether it is galamsey, flooding, power sector challenges, or road safety, the pattern is remarkably similar. The issue dominates the news after a tragedy, momentum builds briefly, then gradually dissipates before meaningful, lasting reforms are embedded.

Until we break that cycle and build institutions that focus on sustained implementation rather than episodic responses, many of the challenges Ghana has faced for decades will continue to resurface.

[Nana B. @koboateng]

A minister went live on national television, visibly excited that he had finally found a “gotcha moment” against ordinary Ghanaians.

Why? Because a draft bill was published on the ministry’s official website, then quietly revised four different times through closed-door meetings without properly communicating any of those changes to the public.

After that, he confidently says:
“The old bill is dead. You people are online criticizing a dead bill. You don’t have the updated bill.” As if secrecy, poor communication, and public confusion are achievements.

You are pushing 15 digital bills that will affect millions of citizens, businesses, creators, and young people, yet the public engagement has been chaotic from the beginning. Instead of transparency, accountability, and respect, citizens are being mocked on live TV for reacting to the only version they were officially given access to.

Leadership is not a game of catching citizens off guard. If people are confused, the failure is in communication, not in the public asking questions. This is not it.

Ghana is failing us.

[Hubert Tieku Esq @KwesiHubert]

Kindly share to help stop this nonsense of a Bill 🙏🏻

#StopTheNITABill #StopTheNITABill

#StopTheNITABill #StopTheNITABill

#StopTheNITABill #StopTheNITABill

#StopTheNITABill #StopTheNITABill

#StopTheNITABill #StopTheNITABill

#StopTheNITABill #StopTheNITABill

[Tema Jeff Bezos🇬🇭 @realMastana]

#ScrapTheNITABill
#ScrapTheNITABill
#ScrapTheNITABill
#ScrapTheNITABill
#ScrapTheNITABill
#ScrapTheNITABill
#ScrapTheNITABill
#ScrapTheNITABill

[Paul Azunre @pazunre]

We need a bill to certify politicians

Term limits.

Tests on common sense, logic economics

Cuz someone who cannot define what Coding is should not be making laws about it.

It is not surprising that they would produce retarded bills like this

[Nana Yaw Architect 🇩🇪🇹🇷🇬🇭 @Yaw_Ridwan]

Dear
@NITAGhana

The questions and answers provided in your response comes off a bit as a deflection of the main concerns.

Below are our concerns and would be very beneficial if answers can be provided. A twitter space won’t be a bad idea for digital natives 😊.

1️⃣ Article 46 states that no person shall be appointed as an Information and Communications Technology professional in a public or private institution unless certified by the Authority.

What specific national problem is this provision trying to solve that existing university degrees, industry certifications, and employer hiring standards have failed to solve?

2️⃣ Under Article 46, why should a private startup hiring a software engineer require state certification before employment?
Does NITA believe private companies are incapable of assessing technical competence on their own?

3️⃣ If a globally recognized engineer from companies like Google, Microsoft, or Amazon relocates to Ghana, would they legally be unable to work until certified by NITA?

4️⃣ Article 46 gives NITA power to determine the criteria and procedure for certification.

Why does the Bill not define the minimum criteria directly in the legislation itself, considering the broad powers being granted?

5️⃣ Can NITA point to any major digital economy such as Germany, United States, United Kingdom, Singapore etc. where all Information and Communications Technology professionals in both private and public sectors require mandatory government certification before employment?

6️⃣ The Bill appears to centralize approval authority within NITA.
How does NITA plan to avoid creating a bottleneck where innovation moves at the speed of regulatory approval rather than the speed of technology?

7️⃣ If a university student builds a small application, an artificial intelligence model, or an e-commerce website from their bedroom, at what point do they become subject to certification or regulatory approval under this Bill?

8️⃣ The Bill introduces penalties including fines and possible imprisonment for non-compliance.
Why was a punitive approach chosen for a sector historically driven by openness, experimentation, and low barriers to entry?

9️⃣. Does NITA see software engineering as equivalent to professions like medicine or law where licensing protects life and safety?

If so, which categories of Information and Communications Technology work does NITA consider dangerous enough to justify state licensing?

🔟 Could Article 46 unintentionally encourage companies to relocate talent, outsource development abroad, or avoid hiring locally certified professionals due to compliance uncertainty?

Has NITA conducted an economic impact assessment on innovation, startup growth, foreign investment, and youth employment?

[Fluminense F.C. @FluminenseFC]

𝘕𝘢̃𝘰 𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘰; 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘶 𝘴𝘦𝘪 𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘑𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘴, 𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘪 𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘰.
𝘌𝘭𝘦 𝘯𝘢̃𝘰 𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢́ 𝘢𝘲𝘶𝘪, 𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘫𝘢́ 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘶, 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘰 - Mt 28:5-6

Ele morreu e ressuscitou por nós. Que pratiquemos o amor, a tolerância e a caridade como Ele ensinou.

Feliz Páscoa, Tricolores! ✝️🇭🇺

[GodLogic_GL @GodLogic_GL]

Christ is risen.

This is the single most significant event in history. Today is the day Christ was vindicated as the one whom the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms testified about.

He took a small group of men and women, many of whom had just abandoned him and were terrified for their lives, and transformed them into bold proclaimers of his resurrection—the very message that took over the Roman Empire and spread throughout the entire world. If they could do this as a small, persecuted group, then all 2 billion+ of us can do it today. Go proclaim Christ every day of your life.

[Holy Bible @Holy__Bible1]

𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗻 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴 👑

[Holy Bible @Holy__Bible1]

“𝗝𝗲𝘀𝘂𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹.”

[Holy Bible @Holy_Bible12]

He died for us.

[Holy Bible @Holy__Bible1]

𝘑𝘌𝘚𝘜𝘚 𝘋𝘐𝘌𝘋 𝘍𝘖𝘙 𝘠𝘖𝘜𝘙 𝘚𝘐𝘕𝘚.

[Holy Bible @Holy__Bible1]

“𝗜𝘁 𝗜𝘀 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱”
#goodfriday

[Holy Bible @Holy__Bible1]

“𝙃𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙙 𝙨𝙤 𝙬𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚.”

[Ⓡ𝐚𝐮f🇬🇭🇮🇱🇺🇸 @_rauf233]

The country is gone!!!

On your left, you will see Gen. Buhari and on your right, you will see Annan Perry both operating on their party nonsense. Mmoa

[Elliot @elliot_solution]

An imam ordered the killing of a preacher in Nigeria.

Eunice Olawale was a deaconess at the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Kubwa, Abuja.

She was a mother of seven children.

Every single morning at 5am, before her family woke up, she would walk out into the dark streets of Abuja with a megaphone and a Bible to preach.

Nigerians call it "morning cry."

Weeks before she died, she came home and told her husband that men from a nearby mosque were unhappy with her preaching.

Her husband warned her to be careful.

She went back out the next morning anyway.

On July 9, 2016, she left the house at 5am as usual.

By 5:30am, neighbours heard her voice fade mid-sentence.

Then they heard her screaming "Blood of Jesus" repeatedly.

When they found her, she was lying in a pool of blood on the street with stab wounds to her stomach and cuts to her neck.

Her Bible was beside her. Her megaphone was beside her. Her phone was beside her.

They took nothing. The only intention was to kill her.
Her husband drove to the police station with two of his children and at the gate he saw a pickup van leaving with his wife's lifeless body in the back.

Eight people were arrested. Six were released immediately.

Five months later, police had not named a single suspect publicly.

The local Imam admitted he sent young men to chase her away from the street but denied telling them to kill her.

Nobody was ever charged. Nobody was ever tried. Nobody was ever convicted.

Two years after her murder, her family was still publicly begging for answers.

A woman killed in broad daylight with her Bible in her hand, and her killers are still free.

💔 🇳🇬

[Kwaku Baafi OBE🇬🇭 @CaselyHerman]

When the VEEP had sudden ailment, they flew her to UK, no makeshift treatment

Haruna had an accident, helicopter conveyed him to Accra, no makeshift treatment

Chale if you're an ordinary citizen for Ghana here paa err, everyday pray for God's protection cos you're on your own😂

[Nathaniel Bassey @nathanielblow]

A good time to make this spread and trend again…….
Let’s go !

Jesus just has to be who He says He is. No one gives this joy that He gives.
We celebrate our king, JESUS !

[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

WHAT A NIGHT! 🤩

#CFC | #UCL