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
The NITA Bill 2025 mandates EVERY IT worker in Ghana licensed before they can work, even in private companies.
It also:
- taxes IT companies on revenue (not profit)
- jails unlicensed tech founders for up to 10 YEARS
- restricts IT licences to companies wholly owned by Ghanaians, potentially driving away foreign investment to other African countries like Rwanda & Kenya.
- The Bill does many other awful and archaic things
This may be the biggest anti-tech bill Ghana has seen in years.
#StopTheNITABill
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.
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Can we pause and talk about something important?
Many of you followed the #StopGalamseyNow and #FreeTheCitizens protests closely. You watched as ordinary Ghanaians took to the streets to demand accountability, and you watched as the state responded by detaining them unlawfully.
What you may not have seen was what happened behind the scenes; the lawyers who quietly stepped in, asked for nothing, and worked to get those people home.
One of them is a young woman who gave her time and her legal expertise entirely pro bono. No fanfare, no press conference. She just showed up, did the work, and made sure those activists were not swallowed by a system that was betting they would be forgotten.
Today, her family needs us.
Her mother has been diagnosed with a rare, life-threatening blood disorder. She is in the ICU right now, receiving urgent treatment every single day. The costs are serious and they are growing. This family is carrying an enormous weight, and they should not have to carry it alone.
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I have an employee, Sarah, who has been my right hand for 6 years. She opens the shop, closes the shop, and treats the business like it's her own. Yesterday, she came into my office shaking, handing me a resignation letter. She said her mom was diagnosed with dementia and she needs to become a full-time caregiver because she can't afford a nurse. I tore up the letter. I told her, 'You are not quitting. You are on paid leave until you figure this out. Your job will be here, and your paycheck will hit your account every two weeks.' I’d rather take a hit to my profits than lose a loyal human being to a tragedy she didn't ask for.
Good people are hard to find, we have to protect them
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