Jirayah

Web Designer, Digital Marketer, and Everything tech. Chartering a new path into Software Engineering with @alx_africa SE program.

[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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[Jirayah @this_Senyo]

@oluwoleesther1 @WatcherGuru I think you are confused 😆. Sam is with OpenAI not Anthropic

[CDR AFRICA @cdrafrica]

🇬🇭 BREAKING :

The Bank of Ghana has warned that rejecting pesewa coins is illegal under the Currency Act, 1964 (Act 242) and cautioned that such practices can fuel inflation by encouraging price rounding.

The central bank emphasized that lower-denomination coins, including one, five, and twenty pesewas, remain legal tender and must be accepted in all transactions to maintain efficient currency circulation and safeguard price stability.

[Saddick Adams @SaddickAdams]

Since 2011, government of Ghana may have received in World bank grants and loans, budgetary allocations and projects, around $10billion in combating flooding, largely in Greater Accra ALONE.

This is minus NADMO and government interventions after major floods, The West Africa Coastal Areas Resilience Project, Municipal Flood Grants and others.

In this same period, Equatorial Guinea has spent less than $2 billion to build a new capital (Malabo to Oyala) for a population of 200,000.

Myanmar (Yangon to Naypyidaw) for $4 billion.

Egypt started building the most ambitious new Capital estimated at $45 billion for 7 million population.

Meanwhile, Ghana's Ministry of Works & Housing has said it needs over $6 billion to address flooding.

Trust, it will come to naught, if that budget is approved.

Ghanaian leaders and performative actions rather than ambitious takes.

Pour water on top of your Gari and Accra will float.

[Mawunanunyam @i_am_nunya]

Ghana is richer than Senegal.

It’s GDP is 3 times that of Senegal.

Why is Ghana using converted cargo vans as public transport while Senegal switches completely to rail?

[Jirayah @this_Senyo]

@THESTATENEWSS I think the police should have let it played out, done an undercover operation to arrest the one who would received or pickup the items. Thereby also getting the source of ammunition.

[Makanaki_GfG @makanaki_GfG]

@GhanaRevenue Can you people do same for clearing goods at the harbor ? Or terminal ? @GhanaRevenue some transparency on the calculation and taxes on cargos clear at the port ?

[Jirayah @this_Senyo]

@MayMayspeaks 6

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@kmcnam1 WordPress & Laravel

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@Wisdom_HQ 95

[Jirayah @this_Senyo]

@denicmarko WordPress!

[Osagyefo Oliver Barker-Vormawor @barkervogues]

Last year, I was helping a friend find a property to rent.

The property was listed at 10,000 cedis for rent. It was out of his budget but he liked it. So we were trying to get the landlord to accept 9000 cedis for it.

Sadly, someone was ahead in the queue and got it. It’s a year later. The property is back in the market.

It is listed at 1500 dollars. (Nearly 17,000 cedis).

At the time it was 10,000 cedis, the dollar was 16. Meaning the dollar equivalent would have been around 625 dollars. Today the dollar is around 11, meaning the value of the rent should have been around 6-7 thousand.

Something is broken about Ghana. I can’t put my finger on it. But it’s not working la!

[Jirayah @this_Senyo]

@UccTaylorswift @Starlink That's just for the kit. You still have to pay for a monthly subscription of 500 or 770 cedis.

[GHOne TV @ghonetv]

We need to have entities in charge of protecting consumers against exorbitant charges... - Roni Nicol (Former Dep. MD, State Housing Corporation)

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#GHOneTV #NewsAlert
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[GOD GULUVA @Zweli_Thixo]

Once people know that you're a good person:

[Jirayah @this_Senyo]

@jbarbier 🤣🤣🤣

[Jirayah @this_Senyo]

@HamdiaOfori These should must be thoroughly disinfected before use, given the purpos they were originally used for. We wouldn't want any chemicals linked to illegal mining leaching in our foods.

[Jirayah @this_Senyo]

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[ChiefHerbalist @HerbalistChief]

Cure for stubborn Ringworm and Eczema.

Get local black soap (alata samina), mix it with blended potash (kaun) and lime juice. Apply the mixture on affected spot after bath.

That stubborn eczema will disappear. Nature heals.

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[Jirayah @this_Senyo]

@nkrumah_ivan @IamVerlardean @SneakerNyame_ Unless she take the songs put repeat😂