SIM Card Reregistration Deadline: The Minister For Communications Should Slow Down – Lawyer Kpebu

The newly issued communique by the National Communications Authority (NCA) concerning punitive measures against persons who refuse to reregister their SIM cards by September 30 this year, has received a number of reactions and responses from Ghanaians. It appears that the Telecom Agencies are on one hand and the Ministry of Communications and the National Communications Authority are also on another hand. There seems to be no partnership in any form between these three key actors involved in the digitisation process. 

For instance, how can the NCA tell a Ghanaian who is now in the process of acquiring his or her Ghana Card that the card will be ready in October 2022 but the deadline for the SIM card reregistration is September same year? 

How do they reconcile these inconsistencies and inconveniences created by themselves?

This is the key challenge they should have collaboratively resolved before forcefully being hard on ‘innocent’ Ghanaians. 

Responding to this development, Lawyer Kpebu has boldly declared that the entire process is so tiring. Additionally, the timing is wrong because we are already facing economic crisis, that needs an urgent redress. Practically, there has been a situation where some Ghanaians would have to move from the village to the city to get their Ghana Card done. And all this comes at a cost. Some cannot even afford one hot meal per day. So telling them to travel all the way from their places of abode to register the Ghana Card is really inconveniencing. 

According to him, the Minister for Communications should slow things down, and rather push the government to focus on resolving the current economic challenges. When things normalise, and everyone has their Ghana, then they can be strict on those who intentionally refuse to participate in the process.

“The reregistration exercise is tiring; the timing is wrong.

There is so much aggression around the whole process.

We are in hard times yet the ministry is on our neck trying to force citizens to participate in this exercise,” Lawyer Martin Kpebu poured out his concerns.

With a careful examination and analysis, I will vehemently side with the renowned legal practitioner because it appears that politics is overshadowing the main rationale behind the digitisation agenda. It comes down to depict that the government is trying to go against the Supreme Law of the land, by aggressively disenfranchising some Ghanaians from engaging in the whole process.

I suggest that, all Civil Society Organisations, the Media, Digitisation Experts & Individuals and the entire citizenry should come together and march on the streets to kick against this decision made by the NCA.

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