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The Government should consider reshuffling Sam George before he unites the Tech Community in Ghana against his own party. Look at this NITA bill. You are supposed to help encourage tech among the youth to expand Ghana’s growth in the industry, but instead you want to stifle growth and make money from the people. To let you know, it took me less than 5 minutes to register my tech LLC in the US, and it cost me less than $130, an amount someone working can earn in a day. So far, you haven’t done anything to help startups, yet you want to make money from them.

@DigitaSoja @tech_twi No one has a problem with regulation if it is done the right way. I shouldn’t be paying money annually just to practice in my profession. Imagine every profession in the country have to pay a fee every year to keep working, doesn’t make sense

@sack_chasser @Milli_gosh How will we thrive when we have to pay to even practice how to build a website? In the age of AI, it’s already hard breaking into tech and now there is this.

The signal that the NITA bill is sending to the very people who are building the tech ecosystem might end up damaging the very ecosystem it intends to regulate.

We don’t have stable electricity, the quality of internet is subpar, our roads are the worst. But yes, Kwame from kasoa Galilea working on his little startup on his plug-and-play i3 should pay 20k in licensing fees.

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.

@W_EE_A @koboateng Oh mese, this is wild

@thenoblet @koboateng @EFLFighters And what will be the context? We have to help the regular non-tech Ghanaian understand what is at risk first. We can’t do this alone. Let people understand how this affects their kids and small businesses.

Less than 24 hours ago, we started a petition against the NITA Bill 2025. We just crossed 2,000 signatures. That shows how serious we are. But we’re still far from our goal of 10,000. Make your voice heard. Sign and share 👇 nitastopthebill.vercel.app @koboateng @kwekutech

Ghana wants to be a regional techhub & at the same time @NITAGhana wants to regulate who is allowed to work in the tech sector and which tech products get operational licenses. This is a bad idea 👎. #NITAdropthebill, shoutout to @kwekutech for consistently pointing this out

I barely do this but I beg any Ghanaian to read the following write up by Chris-Vincent Agyapong. Bookmark, share etc cos wtf 😳 1/4 “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

@TheDumbTechGuy There is nothing we can do unless we approach this from a legal point of view. We have to have strong arguments and find where this is taking away our rights in a legal sense. We can’t just ask and it will be given, doesnt work that way

@themichnkansah @DedeCodex Well we also don’t really know how the details of how legislation works with regards to this , they got that on us.

@DevCongress The field is self regulatory, you face consequences when you break certain rules in a certain domain. My solution is to put this out there as much as possible, I’m talking other tech scenes out of Ghana so they add their voices and make this viral.

@DevCongress IT is a continuous learning profession, no matter what level we get to, we are still in training because of how tech evolves. My argument is that we don’t need to get licensed just like a trainee pilot or doctor does not need a license to practice.

@DevCongress Add me, I wanna contribute

@ECGghOfficial Half of our area has been experiencing light out for 23 hours now and we have called several times. When will the issue get attended to?

@Regular_NotNice Oh mese everything is down The agents cannot even here you to assist you😂😂

As we keep making progress offline let's keep making progress online too as we seek justice for Ochanya's case.... Comment/quote with the hashtag #justiceforochanya. It needs to be trending again!!! Repost for a larger audience. LET'S GO!!!!!