Sam Nartey George, the Minister-Designate for Communications, Digital Technology, and Innovation has fired missiles at the former Akufo-Addo government.
Sam George at his vetting revealed the NDC government will do a proper sim re-registration exercise again with no Ghanaian queuing.
According to Sam George, the last government were very at par with common sense and logic to subject Ghanaians to long hours in queues to register their sims.
Speaking during his vetting by Parliament’s Appointments Committee, Sam George stated, “The actions that happened under the last government were very at par with common sense and logic. We have a National Identification Authority that holds and sits as our national repository of biometric data. I think it was wickedness to the highest order to subject Ghanaians to long hours of queue, taking away productive man hours and affecting our economy to go and queue again and resubmit biometrics simply because egos could not be managed.
We will do a proper sim re-registration exercise again but this time, nobody is going to queue. Because common sense will prevail, expertise will prevail and logic will work”, he added.
Sam George further added, “The MNOs hold a certain set of dates. We will use technology to cross-reference that against the NIA’s database and all biometric databases and only instances where there is a disparity would require you to visit an MNO shop.
“Because today, as we speak, the telcos cannot truly verify who is holding their sim car. It is even in their own benefit for us to do this process and do it properly,” he stated.
