The National Identification Authority (NIA) never expected to register eligible people in time for the SIM card re-registration deadline.
With approximately two million people aged 15 and above still to be registered, NIA Executive Secretary Prof. Kenneth Attafuah stated that “there is no way that NIA can register those people.” Technically, it is physically impossible.”
“We said it was impossible way back in March.” “It’s like expecting a maiden to have a baby every three months,” he said at a press conference on Friday.
“That is not how the physical and logistical system has been designed to respond. We cannot do that.”
“It is not for the NIA to provide advice on that because it is outside of its mandate,” Prof Attafuah said.
The window for re-registering SIM cards was extended on July 31, but a month later, the number of people who visited network service provider offices to have their SIMs registered dropped by 98 per cent.
The National Communications Authority (NCA) was sued, with a group requesting that the Supreme Court declare the registration deadline and the associated punitive measures for non-registration null and void.
It claimed that the punitive measures violated the constitution.
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