Want to buy a new SIM card? Too tired to
wait in line and register the SIM? Send
your goat or yam instead according to this
report from The Telegraph ... Find it
below...
SIM card registration agents across the
country are using pictures of goats and
foodstuff instead of human beings during
the registration process, Efosa Idehen,
the Head, Compliance, Monitoring and
Enforcement of Nigeria Communication
Commission (NCC), said on Monday.
He said: “It may interest you to know that
after the telephone operators might have
completed their own part of the
registration and forwarded it to us as the
regulators; we sometimes find pictures of
goats and yams. We also do find pictures
of women with men’s name and vice
versa.
“When information got to the NCC that
some people were buying SIM cards
without their biometrics, it became
worrisome to us because the main
purpose of SIM card registration was
going to be defeated.”
According to Idehen, investigation by the
regulator showed that SIM cards that
were not registered were used by
criminals like kidnappers.
He added that the pre-activated SIM
cards were usually sold at a premium
sum of N1,500 as against N100 for the
normal ones.
“We have had to sanction GSM operators
in the past for not monitoring the
activities of their agents,” he said.
“Anyone who sells fully activated SIM
cards is as guilty as the person who
registers the card because they are not
supposed to be registered before sale.
“In Osun state, I arrested some teenagers
of 13 and 14 years of age, took them to
their parents and verbally warned them
that what their children were doing would
land them in problem.”
Idehen said anyone found with pre-
activated SIM cards would be prosecuted
and may end up paying a fine of
N200,000.
The NCC is mandated to create a credible
data base of Nigerians using the GSM.
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