Goats And Yams Register For SIM Cards Registration

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… lol. 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 N 1,500 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 N 200,000.


The NCC is mandated to create a credible data base
of Nigerians using the GSM.

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