Assistant Registrar in charge of Information Communication Technology (ICT) at the Central University College, James Anani Amezi has asserted that the best approach to preventing the sim card re-registration brouhaha was to complete the Ghana card registration and its subsequent implementation.
According to him, the sim card re-registration exercise has proved to be a complicated operation due to its simultaneous approach with the synchronization of the Ghana card.
In an interview on e.tv Ghana’s “Fact Sheet” with Samuel Eshun, Mr. Amezi reiterated that despite being historically sound to connect people’s data to their sim cards, the approach from the government flaws the entire concept.
“We have two very important processes going in side by side where one depends on the other, ideally we could have waited for one of the processes to complete first then we use that as an input for the other. Since the sim registration or the linking it to your bio data is based on the availability of your Ghana card, we could have waited as a country to be sure of covering every Ghanaian or most on the Ghana card before we move ahead with the re-registration process,” he told Samuel Eshun.
Last week, the National Communications Authority (NCA) authorized Mobile Network Operations to restrict unregistered customers from making calls ahead of the September 30th deadline for registration.
Meanwhile, the Minority in Parliament says the Ministry of Communication and the NCA have no legal basis to implement the restrictions placed on the use of mobile telephony services by persons with unregistered SIM cards