MP for Ningo Prampram, Samuel Nartey George says unregistered SIM cards can not be blocked by March 31 deadline as stated by the National Communications Authority (NCA).
He explained that any move to block the unregistered SIM cards will amount to an illegality, for which the government can be sued.
“It is hot air, it won’t happen there is no law backing that,” Sam Goerge told Johnnie Hughes on the New Day show on TV3 Monday, February 21.
“On the 1st of April people who have not registered will have their SIM cards. Ghana is not a banana republic,” he said adding that ” We will sue them and we will win the case.”
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Concerned Mobile Network Subscribers have also in the statement said "There is no law in Ghana that requires Ghanaian mobile network subscribers to “Re-register” their SIM cards."
According to them, any attempt to impose this on subscribers or block their lines would amount to an infringement of their property rights.
They have outlined the following demands;
(I) The National Communication Authority (NCA) should immediately withdraw its directive for mobile network customers to re-register their SIM cards by 31st March 2022.
(II) When the appropriate legal framework is in place, a re-registration exercise can be done without having subscribers spend productive hours and several days in long queues in the midst of a ravaging Covid-19 pandemic.
(II) There’s understandably a need to eliminate crime. But the fight against criminals must be within the law. We therefore demand that the NCA and Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) must come up with a better and innovative way of re-registering the SIM cards by first amending existing law; and, secondly, to do so without the current inhumane re-registration process we are witnessing.
If the NCA and the MNOs fail to heed these demands, we shall, starting Tuesday, 8th February 2022 begin the first of a series of planned boycotts until the rights of customers to be treated with dignity are respected.