{"id":1163822,"date":"2022-08-02T20:19:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T20:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/02\/ursula-threatening-people-like-a-headmistress-sam-george\/"},"modified":"2022-08-02T20:19:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T20:19:16","slug":"ursula-threatening-people-like-a-headmistress-sam-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/02\/ursula-threatening-people-like-a-headmistress-sam-george\/","title":{"rendered":"Ursula threatening people like a headmistress \u2013 Sam George"},"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=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/17183981-F734-484A-A623-A06D8D38E45E-696x522.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Ursula Owusu-Ekuful\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Communications Minister<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, Sam Nartey George, has taken a swipe at the Minister for Communication and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful.<\/p>\n<p>The MP has described the Communications Minister\u2019s comments regarding the extension of the period for the re-registration SIM as akin to a headmistress of a school talking to her students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe minister is simply defeating the process by the way she is going about things. We need to take our time. [For] such public policies, you need to take your time, you roll it out with a cool head; you meet stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor ten months, Ursula has been rolling out registration and threatening people like a headmistress threatening students at an assembly. Meanwhile, some Ghanaians working for the government and on missions outside the country were all forgotten until she decided to allow such people to use the App introduced,\u201d he said in an interview on Asempa FM\u2019s <strong>Ekosii Sen <\/strong>Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister, during a press conference, announced an extension of the SIM re-registration deadline originally scheduled for July 31.<\/p>\n<p>The new deadline, she pegged at September 30.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana Card is the sole identification document for ongoing SIM card re-registration which is under the auspices of her ministry.<\/p>\n<p>But, some Ghanaians are yet to acquire a Ghana card to facilitate their SIM registration.<\/p>\n<p>The Ningo Prampram lawmaker believes the new deadline is also bound to fail because the systems needed to secure success are not in place or are being wrongly implemented.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1315958119&#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\"><\/iframe><\/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=\"GT5qgvQ8PaY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Liquified Petroleum Gas: Analyzing sellers&#039; strike and LPG shortage for problem solution\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GT5qgvQ8PaY?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>Communications Minister Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, Sam Nartey George, has taken a swipe at the Minister for Communication and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful. The MP has described the Communications Minister\u2019s comments regarding the extension of the period for the re-registration SIM as akin to a headmistress of a school talking to her students. \u201cThe minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1163825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[1911,16311,345,3871,11996,3537],"class_list":["post-1163822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-george","tag-headmistress","tag-people","tag-sam","tag-threatening","tag-ursula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163822","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=1163822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}