Concerned Mobile Network Subscribers, a group of renowned Ghanaian personalities, have asked Ghanaians to boycott all mobile network services on Tuesday, February 8, 2022.
This is part of a series of rallies against the continuing SIM card re-registration process, which they consider illegal and inhumane.
The #NoCallsDay campaign, which will run from 6:00 a.m. to 12 p.m, is anticipated to be joined by around 7,000 mobile network users who have signed an online petition against the registration process.
The group, comprised of Members of Parliament, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), media practitioners, and private legal practitioners, had previously requested that the National Communications Authority (NCA) halt the SIM re-registration exercise.
It argued that “any attempt to impose this [SIM card re-registration] on subscribers or block their lines would amount to an infringement on their property rights.”
“Following the failure of the National Communications Authority (NCA) and Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) to address concerns associated with the legality and chaotic SIM-Re-registration Exercise, we the undersigned Concerned Mobile Network Subscribers, and the over 7,000 online petitioners, call upon our fellow countrymen and women to join our campaign for a #NoCallsDay boycott of the MNOs on Tuesday 8th February, 2022.”
“On Tuesday, we are appealing to Ghanaians and all mobile network users within Ghana not to make and or receive calls and all associated mobile network activities from 6:00am to 12 midday,” a release dated February 6 said.
Their requests are as follows:
- The NCA should immediately withdraw its directive for mobile network customers to re-register their SIM cards by 31st March, 2022.
- Appropriate legal framework must be in place for any directives for SIM re-registration to happen.
- A demand for the NCA and MNOs to come up with a better and innovative way of re-registering the SIM cards without the current chaotic and inhumane re-registration process we are witnessing up and down the country.
- The NCA should direct the MNOs to stop using private phones of employees to collect subscribers’ biometric data.
“Our next line of action after Tuesday 8th February, if the concerns raised above remain, would be a full day’s (6:00am-6:00pm) boycott on Tuesday, 15th February and same every other Tuesday until the appropriate action is taken by the NCA & MNOs.”
The release was signed by Ras Mubarak, Prof. Raymond Atuguba, Dr. Kwesi Owusu, Hassan Ayariga, Franklin Cudjoe, Kofi Bentil, Gyedu Blay Ambolley, Kofi Kakraba Pratt, Mrs. Mona Quartey, Samson Lardy Anyenini, James Afedo and Selorm Branttie.
Others include; Francis Kofi Korankye-Sakyi, Manasseh Azure Awuni, Akyaaba Addai-Sebo, Amma Sarfo-Kantanka, Kwame Mfodwo, Michael Ofori – Akuffo, Dr. Godfred Seidu Jassaw, Nana Kwaku Agyeman, Appiah Adomako and Sulemana Issifu.
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SOURCE: myjoyonline
