{"id":1162348,"date":"2022-07-30T15:28:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T15:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/30\/sim-card-registration-there-should-be-an-extension\/"},"modified":"2022-07-30T15:28:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T15:28:05","slug":"sim-card-registration-there-should-be-an-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/30\/sim-card-registration-there-should-be-an-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"SIM card registration: There should be an extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1653312218_19_image-496-696x522.png\"   alt=\"Sam George\" title=\"Sam George\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam George<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1314053875&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, Sam George, has said despite the July 31, 2022 deadline for the registration of SIM cards, he is of the firm conviction that there will be an extension.<\/p>\n<p>He told Adom FM\u2019s morning show <strong>Dwaso Nsem <\/strong>Friday that it will be a suicide mission on the part of government to go ahead and block sim cards as it is a national security issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can assure you that there will be an extension. The minister has decided not to extend it but at the end of the day, reality will set in and there will be an extension.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis sim card registration is a national security issue. Six million young people use their sim cards for business either private or public. You think that this issue won\u2019t create unrest when 6 million people are deprived of their source of livelihood?\u201d he quizzed.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has announced that there will not be any extension of the deadline for the nationwide SIM card registration after July 31, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>But the ranking Member of the Communications Committee has berated Mrs Owusu-Ekuful, for the decision to use the Ghana Card as the only document needed to register SIM cards.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the decision is a violation of the country\u2019s laws on SIM Card registrations and an affront to the 1992 Constitution of Ghana<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLI. 2006 says that \u2018a network operator or service provider shall register a subscriber identity module (SIM) of a subscriber.\u2019 It goes on to say what the registrants must provide to the network operator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"iHXUZcIWn6w\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NPP Thanksgiving: We shall shame those who think we cannot revive economy \u2013 Akufo-Addo (29-7-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iHXUZcIWn6w?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam George The Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, Sam George, has said despite the July 31, 2022 deadline for the registration of SIM cards, he is of the firm conviction that there will be an extension. He told Adom FM\u2019s morning show Dwaso Nsem Friday that it will be a suicide mission on the part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1075632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[341,1031,723,347],"class_list":["post-1162348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-card","tag-extension","tag-registration","tag-sim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}