Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Samuel Nartey George, has said persons who fail to re-register their SIM cannot have their cards blocked by the National Communications Authority (NCA).
He said 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 George 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.”
On this same issue, a former Member of Parliament for Kumbungu, Ras Mubarak also said the NCA and the telecommunication companies cannot block SIM cards if the owners refuse to re-register.
He said the re-registration exercise being carried out by the NCA has no grounding in law. He, therefore, called on Ghanaians not to waste their time joining queues to re-register their SIM cards.
In a short message forwarded to 3news.com, Ras Mubarak who is among the prominent Ghanaians opposing the NCA said “If you have not re-registered your sim, do not waste your time. Neither the NCA nor the Telecos can block your SIM after 31st March. The re-registration is an affront to our constitution.”
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