{"id":744702,"date":"2022-01-11T13:16:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T13:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/group-calls-for-extension-of-deadline\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T13:16:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T13:16:38","slug":"group-calls-for-extension-of-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/group-calls-for-extension-of-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Group calls for extension of deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1641906997_221_26184174.295-Copy-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"The SIM card registration exercise will end on March 31 next year\"\/><\/div>\n<p>A group has called on the government to extend the deadline for the ongoing nationwide SIM card re-registration exercise.<\/p>\n<p>The group, Save Consumers Ghana (SACOG), have argued in their request that the exercise which has created human congestion can contribute to the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The nationwide SIM card re-registration is an initiative by the Ministry of Communication and Digitization.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise is part of efforts by the government to deal decisively with the menace of SIM-related fraud while sanitizing the communications ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Though the intent of the exercise is good, the implementation, Executive Director of SACOG, Nana Oye Ankrah said, is bad.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SIM.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2065926\"  \/><\/figure>\n<p>Speaking in an interview on Adom FM\u2019s morning show, <strong>Dwaso Nsem<\/strong> Tuesday, Nana Oye said the March 22 deadline is to blame for the panic among Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>She explained that people are rushing to the offices of telecommunications companies for fear of losing their mobile numbers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current situation is putting the health of subscribers at risk in wake of an increase in the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19,\u201d she argued.<\/p>\n<p>She suggested that the government extends the deadline for registration to December 2022 to avoid the long queues which have characterised the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t put yourself at risk. If you have to go, have your mask on and observe the social protocols\u201d Nana Oye added.<\/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\/1194249406&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/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=\"ugWTSB0MSm4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam on Adom TV (7-01-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ugWTSB0MSm4?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>A group has called on the government to extend the deadline for the ongoing nationwide SIM card re-registration exercise. The group, Save Consumers Ghana (SACOG), have argued in their request that the exercise which has created human congestion can contribute to the spread of COVID-19. The nationwide SIM card re-registration is an initiative by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744702","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=744702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}