NCA And Ghana Government Has Sold Ghanaians Identities with their Bio Data to foreign Entities

NATIONAL COMMUNICATION AUTHORITY (NCA) AND THE GHANA GOVERNMENT HAS SOLD GHANAIANS IDENTITIES WITH THEIR BIO DATA TO FOREIGN AND OTHER THIRD-PARTY MOBILE NETWORK COMPANIES – MOBILE NETWORK COMPANIES CAPTURING CITIZENS BIO DATA MUST STOP.

It is very sad to see our NCA and the government of Ghana to force Ghanaians to reregister their SIM cards with impunity and so-called Ghana Card which in fact, has big flaws. This exercise of SIM reregistration with Ghana Card should not be by force policy or act because customers already have their names captured with the SIM cards, hence, it would be injustice, unfairness, and prejudicial on the part of the NCA and the Ghana government to ask the beneficiaries of Ghanaians bio data, which are the mobile telecommunication network companies in Ghana to be capturing he bio data of people. They are not a national organization; they are private business entities. This act is a big threat to our individual and national security lapses.

The question is, what is the use of the National Identification Authority (NIA), which is Ghana government organization to register Ghanaians by collecting all bio data as national asset and reserve? Therefore, why should the NCA and the government of Ghana gave the power to foreign business companies to collect Ghanaians bio information and data, why? What practice or policy is this? Please, NCA and the Ghana government, don’t you see that you have sold the Ghanaians? Who is keeping the master data they have captured as individual mobile network companies? Even if these companies are to give the Ghana government access to the data they collected, it will only be a copy. It is very bad policy to have asked the mobile telecommunication network companies to collect such full data on Ghanaians which is blatantly wrong against the people of Ghana.

What the NCA and the government should note is that, if Ghanaians are going everywhere, it means the mobile network companies will have all the information and now what is the use of our national security? What else can Ghana government or NCA protect about us if our full database is been sold to third parties and foreign companies? What then is the purpose of the data collected by these mobile network companies and our National Identification Authority (NIA) database under the Ghana card registration?

Please, the world over, is that how they sold their country bio data to mobile network companies? Why is the NCA and the Ghana government doing this to Ghanaians? Bio data of a country is a national asset and cannot be giving out to third parties and foreign companies just like that. This must be corrected immediately. What happens to the Ghana Card data captured by the NIA? Only few of the data information should have been given to the mobile network companies to use such as only the full names, date of birth, and address (this is even problematic in this country, not accurate) for verification purpose and nothing else. Bio database is national asset period. Only security agencies must have access to such information within national responsible institution such as NIA. Why involve mobile network business companies to collect all bio data on the people of Ghana? This is a national security and business threats going forward with such bad arrangement and must be corrected.

I want the NCA and Ghana government and Ghanaians to note that there was very fundamental wrongs with the registration of the Ghana card, during and after the process. Hence, I advise the NCA and the government to do Ghanaians a favour by not treating them harshly and forcing them to reregister their SIMs base on their failures to form good policy and implement it according to the world standards. Therefore, the threats of cancelling or blocking SIM cards which are already and originally registered with names and date of birth cannot be blocked, hence, such threats must be revoked by the NCA. At least only update of records should have been the process but not reregistration.

The NCA and Ghana government should note that we have very serious intellectuals in Ghana who also know how management of economy and public policies can be carried out efficiently and effectively, and can add their knowledge to shape the economy. If the NCA and the Ghana government lack more ideas on how to develop economic management policies, then they should consult Ghanaians and not limit themselves to the limited knowledge within government. Ghana is bigger than individuals and a government.

Finally, SIM cards already in operation should not be blocked but allow people to do records update flexibly, because their names and date of births are already captured when they bought the SIM. If not, is the NCA saying that the SIM cards in use has never been registered with names and others? Because there are no jobs in Ghana or people don’t have work to do in the country the governments of Ghana always get Ghanaians to go out and queue from early morning till evening, just to reregister something, why? People time are always wasted any how in this country.

The NCA and the government of Ghana must note that the Ghana card they are relying on has fundamental data collection process problems which can make it a useless card. This would be elaborated in my next advocacy article if this threat of blocking the SIM cards is not revoked, because it is too harsh to treat the people you represent and working for like that.

Adam A-K