{"id":1203914,"date":"2022-09-14T06:07:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T06:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/14\/minority-others-to-sue-communications-ministry-nca-over-sim-re-registration\/"},"modified":"2022-09-14T06:07:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T06:07:02","slug":"minority-others-to-sue-communications-ministry-nca-over-sim-re-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/14\/minority-others-to-sue-communications-ministry-nca-over-sim-re-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority, others to sue Communications Ministry, NCA over SIM re-registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A <\/span><span class=\"s2\">class action suit will be filed against the National Communications Authority (NCA) and Ministry of Communications over the SIM card re-registration exercise by next week, the <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Sam George has said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Mr. George said over 3,000 Ghanaians and Civil Society Organisations had signed up for the Minority\u2019s class action suit challenging the Ministry of Communications and NCA over punitive measures against persons yet to re-register their SIM cards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The lawmaker questioned the essence of the directive, saying persons who had re-registered their SIM cards were also affected by the sanctions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cWe are supporting a number of legal actions, working with civil society and individual Ghanaian citizens. A number of actions are expected starting from Wednesday, challenging a number of issues and seeking redress for a number of Ghanaians.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cYou should be seeing a class action from sometime early next week where over 3,000 Ghanaians are against the telcos and the Ministry for infringing on the rights of citizens. <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Persons who had even complied with the directive were still punished by the inefficiency of the Minister, and we needed to call this and say the right thing must be done,\u201d said Mr. George.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">SIM card owners in Ghana who have not re-registered their cards started facing punitive actions on Monday, September 5, 2022, ahead of the September 30 deadline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">But some mobile network subscribers in Kumasi who have successfully re-registered their SIM cards are alleging that sanctions announced by the National Communications Authority for unregistered SIM card owners are being applied to them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">Many of such affected persons massed up at various offices of their Mobile Network Operators to demand answers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">Mobile Network Operators began imposing some punitive actions on unregistered SIM cards following a directive from the NCA to compel persons who have the Ghana cards but have still not registered their SIM cards to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">Already, a pressure group, the People\u2019s Project, has <span class=\"s4\"><b>sued<\/b><\/span> the NCA and the Attorney-General (A-G) over the ongoing SIM card re-registration exercise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">The group is asking the Supreme Court to declare the deadline for registration and the associated punitive measures for non-registration null and void.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">It argues that the punitive measures are unconstitutional.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">The suit follows the NCA\u2019s announcement that unregistered sim cards will be blocked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A class action suit will be filed against the National Communications Authority (NCA) and Ministry of Communications over the SIM card re-registration exercise by next week, the Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Sam George has said.\u00a0 Mr. George said over 3,000 Ghanaians and Civil Society Organisations had signed up for the Minority\u2019s class action [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1203916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203914","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\/1203914","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=1203914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}