Take advantage of SIM cards re-registration extension

The Ministry of Communications has announced that the deadline for the re-registration of SIM cards has been extended from March 31 to July 31, this year.

This is good news in view of the large number of people who could not have re-registered their cards by March 31.

The re-registration became necessary due to issues of fraud and deceit through the use of phones and even the internet system. For this reason, it became necessary for the state through the Ministry of Communications to take steps to address the issue of fraud. It is easy for anybody to pick up SIM cards that have not been registered to commit crimes against other people. Such crimes have become difficult to trace; so there is the need to take steps to address the issue.

To be able to do this effectively, all SIM cards, whether previously registered or improperly registered, were required to be re-registered. This time, the re-registration includes capturing the person’s name and others (biodata), so that tracing those who commit crimes in this way can easily be detected.

The exercise began in October last year and should have ended at the end of March, this year. Initially, many people did not take the re-registration seriously for which reason a large number could not have met the deadline.

Again, the re-registration could only be done with the Ghana Card. Unfortunately, many Ghanaians had also not been able to get their Ghanaian Identity Cards.

The Spectator is happy that the deadline has been extended to the ending of July this year.

We are, therefore, appealing to everyone to take the new deadline seriously and do everything possible to get their SIM cards re-registered.

Many re-registration centres have now been opened – and it is only prudent that everyone should take advantage of the situation to do what is honourable so that together, we can use the exercise to fight crime in the country.