The Mobile Money Agents Association of Ghana is raising concerns over the introduction of a self-service sim reregistration app to augment the sim re-registration exercise.
This comes after Ursula Owusu Ekuful revealed that the deadline for the sim card re-registration exercise has been extended to September 30, 2022 in a press conference on Sunday July 31st 2022, Minister for the Minister of Communications
Ursula Owusu Ekuful also disclosed that a self-service sim reregistration app which will be launched will help Ghanaians re-register their sim cards in the comfort of their homes without going to centers of operators as is the case currently.
The app will be available for download on both android and IOS after the launch and will cost GH¢5.
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Reacting to the introduction of the self-service app in an interview with host of Atinka FM’s AM Drive with sit-in host Kaakyire Nana Yaw Fianko (Mr Speaker), the General Secretary for the Mobile Money Agents Association of Ghana, Evans Otumfour explained that it will be inappropriate for a sim card user who has 10 sim cards to pay GHS5 for every registration.
“If I download the app, I will be paying for it. So if I have 10 sim cards, it will not be appropriate to pay for all 10 sim cards. We all know that we have a lot of people within the informal sector who are unable to operate a cell phone on their own,” he added.
Evans Otumfour argued that a lot of people within the informal sector are unable to operate a cell phone on their own and a self-service app will be an issue.
The Mobile Money Agents Association of Ghana early on pleaded with government to extend the deadline for the SIM card re-registration exercise.
In a statement issued on Thursday, July 28, the group pleaded for the deadline to be extended to January 2023.
“As a business people in the industry, it will be very detrimental to our business and the industry, in general, should government pursue the 31st July, 2022 deadline. We appeal that with realism and having considered inconveniences and challenges, the government should extend the deadline to January 2023,” portions of the statement read.
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