Private Legal practitioner, Francis Kwarteng Arthur, has dragged the National Communications Authority (NCA), Ghana Telecommunication Company Limited – operators of Vodafone Ghana, Scancom PLC -operators of MTN Ghana, Airtel Ghana Limited and the Attorney General to the Accra High Court over SIM re-registration.
He alleges that the requirement by the NCA for the telcos to procure, store or use his personal information including his fingerprint, palmprint, iris or facial pattern record or other biometric data or particulars, his rights to administrative justice, property, speech, information and privacy, will be violated.
He is, therefore, asking the High Court to make an order to set aside the directive, instruction or requirement imposed on the mobile network operators by the NCA to procure such personal information. He also wants the NCA and the Telcos to be restrained from authorising, directing, instructing or requiring the collection, storage and use of this personal information.
The sim re-registration exercise commenced on October 1 and is to end on March 31, 2022
The communications ministry has explained that it is geared at dealing with fraudsters as well as enabling security agencies to track persons who engage in criminal activities.
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SIM card users are required to use the National Identification card also known as Ghana card to undertake this registration.
