More than 2,000 Ghanaians to sue NCA, Communications Ministry over SIM card re-registration
The National Communications Authority (NCA) and the Ministry of Communications are heading into a turbulent legal tussle as some 2,000 aggrieved Ghanaians have filed a lawsuit against the two statutory bodies.
The lawsuit, according to reports, is due to what Ghanaians describe as a poorly-organised SIM card re-registration exercise, which has been fraught with anomalies and challenges.
Vice President in charge of Strategy at Imani Africa, Selorm Branttie, has requested signatures of persons affected by the process who are also interested in being part of the class action lawsuit.
He says the suit is already in the works and should be ready in the course of the week.
“We are still putting the legal language together and classifying the suit to make sure that whatever we state in our claims would be foolproof and would stand the test of the law court.
“The main thing was to get people who have had some kind of irreparable damage by the actions of the NCA and the Ministry of Communications as well as even the language used to justify these actions,” he said in an interview.
According to him, the 2,000 mark is exceptional, considering the fact that this has not been a campaign that had huge publicity.
“It just tells you the groundswell of anger and the groundswell of inconvenience that this directive has caused,” he added.
Meanwhile, the NCA has shot down suggestions by some Ghanaians to increase the number of registration centres to speed up the registration process.
According to the Head of Corporate Affairs at the NIA, Abudu Abdul Ganiyu, it is not necessary or prudent for the Authority to open multi-centres for the purpose of SIM re-registration and Ghana Card registration.
