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Ghana Card blacklist: 'You pay attention to the NDC at your own danger' - Ursula
Priest of Communication and Digitalization, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has accused the National Democratic Congress, NDC, for challenges kept in the obtaining of Ghana Cards.
She refered to a public statement through which the party requested that individuals blacklist the enlistment cycle.
She bemoaned that those that submitted to the order she portrayed as an 'against social call' had themselves to fault. "The NDC vociferously went against the Ghana Card enlistment and approached every one of their allies to blacklist the cycle.
"The people who noticed that enemy of social call and would not enlist are presently feeling its impact. You pay attention to the NDC at your own danger," the Minister said at a public interview.
The Ghana Card is the sole ID archive for the re-enlistment of SIM cards, which interaction was booked to end yesterday.
Ursula, while tending to the media on Sunday, said she "hesitantly" stretched out the activity inferable from difficulties, for example, the deferrals in the rollout of a self-serving enrollment application as well as postpones in the obtaining of Ghana Cards.
"Upon conference with the business and considering the difficulties listed above, I have hesitantly chosen to concede a last restrictive expansion.
"The pogramme will be reached out to 30th September to end on the commemoration of its initiation. That will give us one entire year of SIM enlistment to be inspected toward the finish of this current month and any SIM that has not been completely enrolled toward the finish of August will be banned from completely getting specific administrations including voice and information administrations.
"It will likewise be more costly to utilize unregistered SIMs. The full scope of correctional measures will be reported at another press preparation in September," the clergyman expressed.
The SIM card enlistment practice started on 31st October 2021 and was supposed to end on 31st March 2022 however as of seventeenth March, north of 14 million SIM cards had been connected to the Ghana Card with more than 10 million Bio-Captures directed and 99,445 new SIMs enrolled.
Because of various elements including the way that over 7.5 million residents and inhabitants were at this point to get Ghana Cards to empower them register their SIM cards, it was clear the cutoff time for culmination of the enrollment of the leftover dynamic SIM cards couldn't be met.
Subsequently, the service stretched out the cutoff time to July 31, 2022. Anyway reports from different news sources including GhanaWeb demonstrated that as of Saturday, July 30, thousands have either not enrolled their Ghana Card or SIM cards.
This prompted a few approaches the public authority and the service to make an expansion the July 31 cutoff time.
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