Over 2,000 Ghanaians have expressed a desire to sue the National Communications Authority (NCA) and the Ministry of Communications.
This is owing to what they call a poorly-organized SIM card re-registration process that has been riddled with anomalies and obstacles.
Selorm Branttie, Vice President in Charge of Strategy at Imani Africa, has solicited signatures from everyone affected by the process who want to join the class action case.
He claims that the action is already in the works and will be completed within the course of the week.
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“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 told JoyNews.
According to Selorm Branttie, the 2,000 milestone is extraordinary, given that this has not been a much publicized campaign.
“It just tells you the groundswell of anger and the groundswell of inconvenience that this directive has caused.”
Meanwhile, the NCA has rejected several Ghanaians’ recommendations to expand the number of registration centers in order to speed up the registration process.
“From where I sit, that has not been contemplated; so, in effect, we are not going to open any multi-centres in the month of September because of the SIM re-registration deadline.
“It has never come up in any conversation and we do not think that is necessary or prudent to do at this moment,” Head of Corporate Affairs at NIA, Abudu Abdul Ganiyu, said.
SOURCE: myjoyonline
