MTN-Ghana has launched an internal campaign to motivate its staff to facilitate the SIM registration exercise.
The campaign dubbed: “GRAB, CHECK AND ACT (GCA)†is to encourage all staff, irrespective of their role to assist with the registration of customers.
A statement issued by the Acting Chief Corporate Services Officer for MTN, Nana Kofi Asare, said all MTN Staff have been tasked to check the registration status of customers they interacted with so that unregistered customers could be assisted to do so.
The statement also said MTN has deployed its field agents to communities with lowest registration numbers to get the customers registered.
Providing further details Chief Sales and Distribution Officer of MTN Ghana, Shaibu Haruna, stated that efforts have been intensified to leave no one behind as the programme nears its end.
“We are nearly at the finish line and so we have intensified our efforts to reach out to all our customers.”
He further entreated all customers rolled on to various data packages to ensure that SIM cards in their modems and other smart devices are registered.
“We have created many channels (including our online portal  simregistration@mtngh.com) to ensure our customers register with ease. We are encouraging them to use the available channels that are convenient for them to speed up the registration process,” he added.
The mandatory SIM card registration exercise commenced in October 2021 as part of efforts to curtail fraudulent and criminal activities facilitated by mobile phones or SIM-enabled devices by helping the authorities to ascertain real numbers valid and accurate SIMs on mobile networks.
It is scheduled to end on July 31, 2022.
Minister of Communication and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, says her outfit would not extend the set deadline for the nationwide SIM card registration exercise.
Consequently, she said all unregistered SIM cards would be deactivated by the end of July this year, and advised mobile phone users yet to register their SIM cards to do so to meet the deadline.
Source: The Independent Ghana