Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, the minister of communications, rejected rumors that mobile users without a Ghana Card, which serves as the primary paperwork for registering SIM cards, had their numbers deleted.

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Since Thursday, December 1, Telecommunication Networks have began enforcing fines against unregistered users, including deactivating SIM cards that had successfully completed the first step of registration but had not yet finished the second.However, there are rumors that subscribers who did not have Ghana cards to finish the registration process had their SIM cards deactivated as well.

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However, the Minister stated that these claims are untrue in response to some of the concerns voiced by the ranking member of the Parliamentary Communication committee.“People who did not have Ghana Cards have had their cards blocked, and I said No, that has not happened.

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It is those who have completed the first phase of the exercise by linking their cards to the SIM cards but had not gone on to do the biometric capture that has had their SIM cards blocked.”Meanwhile, as hundreds of customers with banned SIM cards flocked to the different facilities, police were dispatched to select SIM registration centers in Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti Regional, to prevent any potential turmoil.

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A increasing sense of annoyance is being felt by the impacted consumers at the different locations, who claim that since their SIM cards were deactivated, they are unable to use important mobile services like calls, data, and mobile money transactions.The subscribers claimed that their SIM cards have been disabled despite them properly completing the re-registration process

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