The government will not back down from taking severe action against those who have neglected to register their SIM cards using the Ghana Card, according to Communications Minister Ursula Owusu-Ekuful.
She claims that so far, more than eight million customers who began the process but haven't finished the second part have been stopped.
“Those who have linked their SIM cards to their Ghana card in the first phase of the registration exercise, but have not gone on to conclude the registration exercise by doing the biometric capture phase, are those whose SIMs have been blocked,” she said.
Madam Owusu-Ekuful reaffirmed that the process is a start in the right path to sanitize the system while speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the 14th ITU Kaleidoscope event in Accra.
“It is important that we do this because without the security of our devices we are all at risk. There are fraudsters and criminals out there who are using the anonymity of the internet and social media to defraud others, and we need to ensure that no one can hide behind this anonymity,” she added.
