Ghana must work

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[Ghana must work @kellskill]

@Gerard_Nartey ah Gerard, you didn't try for the 4th frame

[Efo Dela @Amegaxi]

Sam George dey act like blackboard cleaner for primary school.

Bro, why do you think rushing to clean the board when we've not finished copying the notes makes you more important than us?

[Benjamin Kesse @Nana_kesse1]

We are at that time of the year again where Morning Shows are filled with Political Leaders discussing the Flood situation In Accra.

Then the raining season passes, and everyone forget and move on.

A country of talkatives.

[mrkoomson @mistakoomson]

$ 1million dollar houses are getting flooded. Wei y3 city . Apuuu.

[Afia @af_ia_blue]

When I say Laboma has lost the plot!! A beach club doesn’t allow people to wear slippers. Such a group of jons cus what??

[James @MrJamesKe]

The saddest thing in politics is watching citizens defend the same system that keeps failing them.

[Sammy @coldsummers91]

Masa why are you shouting about it? Where were you when those buildings were being put up

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health says that a total of 3,185 people have been killed by Israel since March 2

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[CHIEF @tailorMARIQUE]

That stretch is how I know assemblies or who ever allowed it no be serious and they don’t care about the quality of lives of citizens. Road wey traffic dey top already. 2 malls on the opposite sides of that stretch. Single lane roads? Where are the brains?

[Biggie @DamnitBiggie]

They can’t even explain what coding is but they’ve proposed a bill that will require young and up and coming developers to pay ¢6000 for the application of the license and a yearly ¢5000 renewal fee.
Herh I hate this country wallahi

[🌱 Dapper Queen Your PlantPlug 🪴 @IvyEnyonam_]

How ironic, that a communications minister who doesn’t have any form of communications background, wants to jail IT people who aren’t certified for practicing IT?

Sack the control freak! He will resell us to those colonizers

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Flotilla activists report rape and torture after Israeli abduction at sea

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[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.

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[Nana B. @koboateng]

Hon. Minister, respectfully, your point answers legality, not public concern.

Yes, NITA may point to existing legislation but citizens are allowed to ask whether the laws being enforced are fair, proportionate, clear, and suitable for the digital economy we are trying to build.

The proposed NITA Bill makes that concern even more serious. It gives the Authority power to license ICT products and service providers, certify ICT professionals, collect 1% of gross revenue from ICT businesses, suspend or revoke licences, inspect premises, seize equipment, close facilities, and impose heavy penalties.

So the issue is not simply “show me where NITA is acting illegally.”

The issue is, if these powers already exist, why are they so broad? If they are being expanded in a new bill, why not amend the dangerous parts before Parliament passes it?

A law can be valid and still be harmful. That is the conversation.

[Iron Boy @NYboateng]

So what has been the benefit of the anti-flooding committee headed by the deputy chief of staff, Stan Dogbe? They just flew in the chopper and did not work for a year?

[Sammy @coldsummers91]

Once you understand that these guys are not in the leadership business to solve any of your long list of problems, your perspective on things like this changes.

This is not going to solve the transportation crisis in major cities. Anyone with a brain knows this.

[Sammy @coldsummers91]

So much of Ghana is critically underdeveloped. Majority of communities in the country are struggling with things as basic as water and good roads.

Yet this is all they are bothered about. Who takes credit for what.

And you think Ghana has a chance of developing under the hideous twins. It will remain a third world country till thy kingdom come.

[Thomas Massie for Congress @MassieforKY]

I lost the election but we started a revolution. Keep the flame of LIBERTY burning my friends! I will continue to put People and Principles before Party. America First! 🇺🇸

[Jake Shields @jakeshieldsajj]

Gay men should not be able to adopt

[Heidi Matthews @Heidi__Matthews]

Flotilla participants are arriving at Istanbul airport. This is what Israel military and prison personnel did to them.