{"id":1201852,"date":"2022-09-10T12:31:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T12:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/10\/sam-george-collects-data-to-file-class-action-over-sim-re-registration-exercise\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T12:31:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T12:31:08","slug":"sam-george-collects-data-to-file-class-action-over-sim-re-registration-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/10\/sam-george-collects-data-to-file-class-action-over-sim-re-registration-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam George collects data to file class action over sim re-registration exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Member of the Communications Committee of Parliament, Sam George has commenced the collation of data to file a class action suit against the National Communications Authority (NCA), over the sim card re-registration exercise.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, the MP for the Ningo-Prampram asked Ghanaians who were affected by the directive from the Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation to fill a form on his page.<\/p>\n<p>This comes on the back of the NCA\u2019s directive to the telecommunications companies to penalise persons yet to register their SIM cards, a move some stakeholders have argued as an infringement on the rights of Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>Already, scores of customers massed up at the premises of the three major telecom companies to express worry over the punitive actions taken against them by the government.<\/p>\n<p>The customers say, they are unable to make phone calls, while others lamented about their inability to access electronic cash in their accounts.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kindly fill this form out if you have been affected by the obnoxious directive from the Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation through the National Communications Authority.<\/p>\n<p>Cheershttps:\/\/t.co\/XK9YklPkEx<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sam \u2018Dzata\u2019 George (@samgeorgegh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samgeorgegh\/status\/1568158281994014729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Member of the Communications Committee of Parliament, Sam George has commenced the collation of data to file a class action suit against the National Communications Authority (NCA), over the sim card re-registration exercise. In a tweet, the MP for the Ningo-Prampram asked Ghanaians who were affected by the directive from the Ministry of Communications and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1102563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201852","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=1201852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}