The People's Project (TPP), a pressure group, has filed a lawsuit against the government about the ongoing SIM card re-registration process and its order to ban all unregistered SIM cards by September 30.
Following a previous warning from the Communication Ministry and subsequent penalties issued by the National Communications Authority (NCA) against users who have not yet re-registered their SIM cards, the Communication Ministry filed the lawsuit.
Beginning on September 5, defaulting users' outgoing calls and data services will be blocked for 48 hours each week as part of the punitive measures.
Even those that have obeyed are beginning to experience the effects of the sanctions' consequences on recalcitrant subscribers.
On September 9, the group filed documents with the Supreme Court asking for a ruling that the deadline and the associated sanctions are "arbitrary, capricious, amounts to an abuse of discretion and same is unconstitutional, null, void and of no legal effect." The group was led by its convenor, Kwame A-Plus.
He contends that "the same government that cannot issue Ghana cards to Ghanaians for SIM card registration must not be allowed to carry out a direction by the communications minister that unregistered SIM cards will be blocked by September 30th."
Here is the complete summons document.
The government extended the deadline for the SIM card re-registration procedure to September 30, 2022, on Sunday, July 31, 2022, for the second time.
At the time, Ursula Owusu, the minister of communications, declared that "any sim that has not been registered by end of August will be prohibited from obtaining services." Subscribers to mobile networks have reported service outages in some cases.
Source : Ghpage.com