Government needs to take serious steps to meet September 30 deadline – Ken Ashigbey
Dr Ing. Kenneth Ashigbey, Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications has said the September 30, 2022 deadline for the SIM re-registration exercise will be enough as long as government “takes some serious steps”.
Mr Ashigbey during an interview on Citi TV said “the total number of Ghanaians who are yet to receive their Ghana cards is about 2.97 million, and then we have some 808,000 who had not received their cards as at the last time I collected data. That brings us to about 3.781 million Ghanaians yet to receive their cards. If we divide that by 61 days and then by 275 district offices plus the 16 Regional offices, the NIA should be doing 165 registrations daily.”
“This is not impossible to do,” he added.
Mr Ashigbey noted that the main challenge to be faced in meeting the deadline will be easy access to NIA centres.
He thus recommended that government supports the NIA to take the registration to the doorstep of Ghanaians.
“Just as politicians take voter registrations to the doorstep of Ghanaians at the polling centres, I will recommend that government provides NIA with extra resources such that they can deploy as close as possible to the citizens.”
He also called on the government to collaborate with the NIA to ensure that persons living with disabilities are registered.
