Communications Minister Gives Another Grace Period To Complete SIM Re-Registration Process | General News

The Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has served discover to most of the people to finish the ultimate stage of the continued SIM card re-registration course of.

She mentioned such individuals who've been issued their Ghana Cards, began and accomplished the primary stage of the re-registration course of, however for no matter cause have refused to finish stage 2 would quantity to punitive measures in a couple of days' time.

The lawmaker defined that the punitive measures can be to deactivate the SIM playing cards of such individuals who've simply refused to finish the method on account of their very own cussed cause.

She revealed the punitive measures would begin working 10 days from in the present day, November 7, 2022.

According to her, the refusal of individuals who haven't any real concern to not full the method hinders the progress of the initiative which she mentioned, is meant to scale back fraudulent and prison actions facilitated by cell phones or SIM-enabled units.

“To those who have refused to complete stage 2 of the SIM REGISTRATION exercise despite having access to their Ghana Cards; their SIMS will be blocked in 10 DAYS - starting today, November 7, 2022. We will make further announcements of steps being taken to complete this exercise in due course” she made this identified in a social media publish.

She added that the government is targeted on attaining an enabling atmosphere for all to entry and make significant use of the digitalization agenda by fostering the event of accessible applied sciences.

Madam Ursula has over the interval additionally acknowledged that the initiative would allow operators to construct higher demographics of their prospects and develop services to comply with numerous groupings whereas permitting the National Communications Authority (NCA) to have a extra correct and credible database to control the trade higher to boost financial progress.

She defined that the train is of essential nationwide curiosity, which needs to be supported by all including that, it will assist legislation enforcement businesses to establish SIM card homeowners, monitor criminals who use telephones for unlawful actions, curb telephone theft, hate textual content messaging, cell fraud actions, SIM Box fraud, amongst a number of different points confronting the nation's safety.

“It will minimize mobile money fraud, promote cybersecurity and support financial inclusion. A credible and reliable SIM register will also serve as a database, giving comprehensive statistics regarding the number of subscribers in the country and provide a resource for tracking fraudsters and criminals” she acknowledged.