Dr. Kenneth Ashigbey, the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications has revealed the SIM card re-registration under the Akufo-Addo government was incomplete.
According to Ken Ashigbey, the sim re-registration biometric data that was collected was not reading properly.
Sam Nartey George, the Minister-Designate for Communications, Digital Technology, and Innovation has at his vetting stated, that the NDC government will do a proper sim re-registration exercise again.
Sam George stated at the vetting, “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.
Speaking in an interview on Citi FM on Monday, February 3, Ashigbey detailed, “I wouldn’t say it is useless. I would say it was incomplete. The thing about it is the fact that the biometric data that was collected was not reading properly. What we should have done was use the NIA database to complete the cycle”.
“We do the liveliness test, we do the likeliness test, we collect the biometric data, but we don’t compare it with the single point of truth, which is the NIA database”, he added.
