The North Tongu legislator Hon. Samuel Okudjeto Ablakwa has disclosed that his phone will not be active from 1st August 2022. According to him, he was unable to register his SIM as at Friday, July 29 and did not intend to join the draconian queue to get re-registered. Instead he has chosen to feel the impact with thousands of his constituents who will not be able to register their SIMs by the 31st July deadline and fight.
According to the NDC MP, about 1445 people in his constituency could not get their Ghana cards simply because the NIA office in his district could not print the ID cards for applicants due to logistical challenge. He was worried that these people have been asked to go to Accra to have their cards registered for them. Ablakwa intimated that this was unfair as Ghana cannot be limited to just Accra. He made his frustrations known in a post he shared on Facebook.
“Ghana is not Accra.
For a good 4 months — since the 29th of March, the NIA Office in North Tongu has been unable to print Ghana Cards for a massive 1,445 beloved constituents of mine who registered for the cards due to what officials are describing as logistical challenges from Head Quarters.
How were these 1,445 victims of institutional ineptitude expected to meet the draconian July 31 SIM registration deadline, and why should their phones be disconnected?
Be rest assured, you are not alone in this — our phones will be disconnected together, and we shall fight together to have them restored.
Good public policy implementation must bring relief, not wreak havoc.”
The minister for communication and digitalisation Hon. Ursula Owusu announced that there will not be an extension after the July 31 dead line. Meanwhile, the ministry announced during a press conference that out of the over 41.2 million registered SIMs in the system, only 14 million had re-registered with the Ghana Card as at June 30. This represents less than 20%.
As at Friday, there were massive crowd at the NIA offices across the country trying get their Ghana cards.
The government had earlier given a deadline of March 31. As that didn’t work, it extended it to July 31.
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