{"id":12054,"date":"2019-10-16T09:53:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T09:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=12054"},"modified":"2019-10-16T09:53:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T09:53:22","slug":"sim-card-re-registration-will-be-fruitless-and-useless-if-kwesi-pratt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2019\/10\/16\/sim-card-re-registration-will-be-fruitless-and-useless-if-kwesi-pratt\/","title":{"rendered":"Sim Card Re-Registration Will Be &#8216;Fruitless&#8217; And &#8216;Useless&#8217; If . . . &#8211; Kwesi Pratt"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"98%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><span class=\"peace_content_text_1\">Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr., says the upcoming sim card Re-registration exercise will be &#8216;fruitless&#8217; and &#8216;useless&#8217; unless the right measures are put in place.<\/p>\n<p>Communication Minister, Ursula Owusu Ekuful at a press briefing Monday, said from January 2020, every Ghanaian would have to re-register their sim. This, according to her, is to clean the current registration system which has been charactersied by fraud. The exercise is scheduled to end in June 2020.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt is quite clear that the current sim card registration regime is deficient and fraught with many challenges defeating the purpose of the sim registration,\u201d<\/em> she said.<\/p>\n<p>If you may recall this is not the first time the country is embarking on such exercise after its commencement in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to this on <strong>Peace FM<\/strong> morning show &#8216;<strong>Kokrokoo<\/strong>&#8216;, Kwesi Pratt said even though he has never been against registration of sim cards, it will be\u00a0useless if the country keeps\u00a0spending the tax payers&#8217; money on the exercise only for it to be repeated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch his submission below<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bM_rg38KQTM\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong class=\"peace_black_text_2\">\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: Rebecca Addo Tetteh<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr., says the upcoming sim card Re-registration exercise will be &#8216;fruitless&#8217; and &#8216;useless&#8217; unless the right measures are put in place. Communication Minister, Ursula Owusu Ekuful at a press briefing Monday, said from January 2020, every Ghanaian would have to re-register their sim. This, according to her, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[3559,12310,6085,4521,177,407,3127,5612,5396,7918,5204,771,3128,8859,7876,1502,12740,10976,10943,3954],"class_list":["post-12054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-communication-minister","tag-exercise","tag-fraud","tag-ghanaian","tag-kwesi-pratt","tag-kwesi-pratt-jnr","tag-managing-editor-of-the-insight-newspaper","tag-money","tag-peace","tag-re-registration","tag-sim","tag-sim-card","tag-sim-card-re-registration","tag-sim-cards","tag-sim-registration","tag-tax","tag-tetteh","tag-ursula","tag-watch","tag-will"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}