diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb b/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb
index 78722682d9..c7ab10066c 100644
--- a/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb
+++ b/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb
@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-python3 = "\
     python3-cassandra-driver \
     python3-cbor2 \
     python3-cerberus \
-    python3-certifi \
     python3-chardet \
     python3-charset-normalizer \
     python3-cheetah \
diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-certifi_2021.10.8.bb b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-certifi_2021.10.8.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index 4c376da897..0000000000
--- a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-certifi_2021.10.8.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-SUMMARY = "Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle."
-DESCRIPTION = "This installable Python package contains a CA Bundle that you can reference in your \
-Python code. This is useful for verifying HTTP requests, for example.  This is the same CA Bundle \
-which ships with the Requests codebase, and is derived from Mozilla Firefox's canonical set."
-HOMEPAGE = " http://certifi.io/"
-
-LICENSE = "ISC"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=67da0714c3f9471067b729eca6c9fbe8"
-
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "78884e7c1d4b00ce3cea67b44566851c4343c120abd683433ce934a68ea58872"
-
-inherit pypi setuptools3
-
-BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"