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NCC Alerts On Pre-Registered SIM Cards
The Head, Enforcement Department, Nigerian Communications Commission
(NCC), Mr Efosa Idehen, has advised Nigerians to be cautious of those who sell
pre-registered SIM cards.
Idehen gave the warning last week in Abuja while
briefing newsmen after officials of the commission raided false SIM card
registration establishments in the FCT.
“If a customer bought a SIM card, it should not be
activated until it is registered.
“We admonish people to desist from buying and selling
pre-registered SIM cards.
“Those who are involved in this practice should stop
because they are destroying the data base which we are trying to build for
Nigeria,’’ he said.
Idehen said that officials of the commission had for the
past four weeks been touring the country ‘to cleanse’ the system of people who
fraudulently register SIM cards and activate them.
“Today, we visited several places within the FCT and
picked up six culprits who would be handed over to the police.
“We are working with the Nigeria Police on this exercise
and some of these culprits had been prosecuted at the Federal High court,’’ he
added.
Idehen said that registration of SIM cards was now
crucial “due to some developmental issues’’.
“We are trying to tackle these issues and having false
data will only compromise the data base,’’ he said.
He promised that the NCC would do everything within its
power to ensure that Nigeria’s data base for subscribers “is the best’’.
Idehen said that service providers had been cooperating
with the commission to apprehend their third party agents who were involved in
pre-registration of SIM cards.
He said that if a SIM card was registered and not used
for five weeks, it would trigger an alert on the service provider’s system as a
pre-registered SIM card.
He called on all Nigerians to
join hands and work together with the commission to build a better
communication data base for Nigeria.
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