The Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr. has described the announcement on re-registration of SIM cards in the country as “useless”.
He said exercise will be ‘fruitless’ and ‘useless’ unless the right measures are put in place.
His reactions come after the government warned that Ghanaians should re-register their SIM cards before June 2020.
According to Ursula Owusu Ekuful, the Minister of Communications, failure to adhere to this new directive will result in the loss of numbers.
She said Ghana enacted the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) Registration Regulations, 2011 (L.I. 2006) primarily to reduce mobile phone related crimes such as prank calls, cyber-crime, mobile money fraud, and its related issues and general security.