The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, has said that re-registration of SIM-cards has been beneficial in helping curb the problem of sim fraudsters across the country.
He made this statement at the Public Accounts Committee hearing on Thursday, January 19, 2023.
According to him, “the challenge used to be the case where we had people walking to any service provider and getting a SIM-card.”
He however noted that: “With the registration of the numbers and the blocking of all the numbers which are unregistered, there is a difficulty for these people [scammers] to continue with their operations.
“So the registration has helped us in defining the space to get these people arrested,” he said.
The re-registration of the Sim started last year March 2022 and it’s still in progress.
